Top 500 Jane Austen Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

— Jane Austen

52. “Success supposes endeavour.”

— Jane Austen

53. “Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.”

— Jane Austen

54. “Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.”

— Jane Austen

55. “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; – it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

— Jane Austen

56. “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

— Jane Austen

57. “A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

— Jane Austen

58. “Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

— Jane Austen

59. “With a book he was regardless of time.”

— Jane Austen

60. “Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”

— Jane Austen

61. “My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”

— Jane Austen

62. “If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.”

— Jane Austen

63. “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy.”

— Jane Austen

64. “Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.”

— Jane Austen

65. “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”

— Jane Austen

66. “There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.”

— Jane Austen

67. “She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”

— Jane Austen

68. “Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”

— Jane Austen

69. “Every savage can dance.”

— Jane Austen

70. “And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.”

— Jane Austen

71. “A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.”

— Jane Austen

72. “I am not romantic, you know; I never was.”

— Jane Austen

73. “Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.”

— Jane Austen

74. “Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.”

— Jane Austen

75. “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it’s fragrance on the desert air.”

— Jane Austen

76. “She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.”

— Jane Austen

77. “She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”

— Jane Austen

78. “Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.”

— Jane Austen

79. “Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.”

— Jane Austen

80. “Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”

— Jane Austen

81. “I have no talent for certainty.”

— Jane Austen

82. “I do not cough for my own amusement.”

— Jane Austen

83. “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”

— Jane Austen

84. “Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

— Jane Austen

85. “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

— Jane Austen

86. “Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.”

— Jane Austen

87. “But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”

— Jane Austen

88. “I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”

— Jane Austen

89. “Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”

— Jane Austen

90. “Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”

— Jane Austen

91. “Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.”

— Jane Austen

92. “Nobody minds having what is too good for them.”

— Jane Austen

93. “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”

— Jane Austen

94. “There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.”

— Jane Austen

95. “Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.”

— Jane Austen

96. “Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.”

— Jane Austen

97. “From politics it was an easy step to silence.”

— Jane Austen

98. “What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”

— Jane Austen

99. “One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.”

— Jane Austen

100. “How much I love every thing that is decided and open!”

— Jane Austen