Jane Austen Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Jane Austen quotes, Jane Austen sayings, and Jane Austen proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick and wicked. Jane Austen
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. Jane Austen
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. Jane Austen
There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time. Jane Austen
But angry people are not always wise. Jane Austen
Keep your breath to cool your porridge. Jane Austen
A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. Jane Austen
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. Jane Austen
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Jane Austen
From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.— Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins and I will never see you again if you do, Jane Austen
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain. Jane Austen
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear any thing to change them. Jane Austen
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. Jane Austen
You must have had more snow at Goldmersham than we had here; on Wednesday morning there was a thin covering of it over the fields and roofs of the houses, but I do not think there was any left the next day. Everybody used to Southampton says that snow never lies more than twenty-four hours near it, and, from what we have observed ourselves, it is very true. Jane Austen
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth. Jane Austen
What strange creatures brothers are! Jane Austen
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. Jane Austen
Vice leads to difficulty, virtue to reward. Bad characters come to bad ends. Jane Austen
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. Jane Austen
She was disturbed by no fear for her felicity, not humbled by any remembrance of her misconduct. Jane Austen
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply. Jane Austen
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. Jane Austen
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defense of some little peculiar vexation. Jane Austen
A woman never looks better than on horseback. Jane Austen
All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone. Jane Austen
There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanor, and a general want of understanding. Jane Austen
Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Jane Austen
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect. Jane Austen
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Jane Austen