Top 500 Jane Austen Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”

— Jane Austen

102. “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

— Jane Austen

103. “My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.”

— Jane Austen

104. “She attracted him more than he liked.”

— Jane Austen

105. “A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”

— Jane Austen

106. “To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.”

— Jane Austen

107. “Time, time will heal the wound.”

— Jane Austen

108. “There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.”

— Jane Austen

109. “Let us have the luxury of silence.”

— Jane Austen

110. “Know your own happiness.”

— Jane Austen

111. “You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

— Jane Austen

112. “One word from you shall silence me forever.”

— Jane Austen

113. “Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”

— Jane Austen

114. “I am excessively diverted.”

— Jane Austen

115. “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.”

— Jane Austen

116. “Till this moment I never knew myself.”

— Jane Austen

117. “Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

— Jane Austen

118. “There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.”

— Jane Austen

119. “The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”

— Jane Austen

120. “What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”

— Jane Austen

121. “I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.”

— Jane Austen

122. “I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”

— Jane Austen

123. “There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”

— Jane Austen

124. “Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”

— Jane Austen

125. “But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”

— Jane Austen

126. “Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”

— Jane Austen

127. “Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”

— Jane Austen

128. “Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.”

— Jane Austen

129. “Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”

— Jane Austen

130. “A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”

— Jane Austen

131. “I can always live by my pen.”

— Jane Austen

132. “To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...”

— Jane Austen

133. “A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”

— Jane Austen

134. “Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”

— Jane Austen

135. “To love is to burn, to be on fire.”

— Jane Austen

136. “I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”

— Jane Austen

137. “I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.”

— Jane Austen

138. “It is very unfair to judge any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.”

— Jane Austen

139. “She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.”

— Jane Austen

140. “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

— Jane Austen

141. “It’s been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.”

— Jane Austen

142. “Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.”

— Jane Austen

143. “There are secrets in all families.”

— Jane Austen

144. “Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world.”

— Jane Austen

145. “She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”

— Jane Austen

146. “Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.”

— Jane Austen

147. “A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”

— Jane Austen

148. “A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.”

— Jane Austen

149. “I should infinitely prefer a book...”

— Jane Austen

150. “Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.”

— Jane Austen