Top 500 Jane Austen Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “Without music, life would be a blank to me.”

— Jane Austen

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2. “I was quiet but I was not blind.”

— Jane Austen

3. “It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”

— Jane Austen

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4. “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book.”

— Jane Austen

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5. “We are all fools in love.”

— Jane Austen

6. “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

— Jane Austen

7. “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

— Jane Austen

8. “What are men to rocks and mountains?”

— Jane Austen

9. “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

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10. “And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”

— Jane Austen

11. “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

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12. “Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.”

— Jane Austen

13. “Angry people are not always wise.”

— Jane Austen

14. “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”

— Jane Austen

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15. “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

— Jane Austen

16. “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

— Jane Austen

17. “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. 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

18. “Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”

— Jane Austen

19. “Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.”

— Jane Austen

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20. “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”

— Jane Austen

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21. “I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”

— Jane Austen

22. “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

— Jane Austen

23. “It’s such a happiness when good people get together.”

— Jane Austen

24. “Our scars make us know that our past was for real.”

— Jane Austen

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25. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

— Jane Austen

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26. “Time will explain.”

— Jane Austen

27. “The less said the better.”

— Jane Austen

28. “My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”

— Jane Austen

29. “Obstinate, headstrong girl!”

— Jane Austen

30. “When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.”

— Jane Austen

31. “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.”

— Jane Austen

32. “The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”

— Jane Austen

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33. “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

— Jane Austen

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34. “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”

— Jane Austen

35. “I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”

— Jane Austen

36. “Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.”

— Jane Austen

37. “I want nothing but death.”

— Jane Austen

38. “I will only add, God bless you.”

— Jane Austen

39. “I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”

— Jane Austen

40. “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

— Jane Austen

41. “My heart is, and always will be, yours.”

— Jane Austen

42. “I walk: I prefer walking.”

— Jane Austen

43. “Almost anything is possible with time.”

— Jane Austen

44. “Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.”

— Jane Austen

45. “There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

— Jane Austen

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46. “The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.”

— Jane Austen

47. “We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”

— Jane Austen

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48. “Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”

— Jane Austen

49. “When I fall in love, it will be forever.”

— Jane Austen

50. “Too many cooks spoil the broth.”

— Jane Austen