Top 500 Jane Austen Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”

— Jane Austen

152. “No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

— Jane Austen

153. “We do not suffer by accident.”

— Jane Austen

154. “A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.”

— Jane Austen

155. “Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.”

— Jane Austen

156. “Is not poetry the food of love?”

— Jane Austen

157. “You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.”

— Jane Austen

158. “An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.”

— Jane Austen

159. “A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.”

— Jane Austen

160. “Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.”

— Jane Austen

161. “I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet.”

— Jane Austen

162. “Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?”

— Jane Austen

163. “What strange creatures brothers are!”

— Jane Austen

164. “An annuity is a very serious business.”

— Jane Austen

165. “My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.”

— Jane Austen

166. “One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.”

— Jane Austen

167. “Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.”

— Jane Austen

168. “Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.”

— Jane Austen

169. “You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.”

— Jane Austen

170. “Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”

— Jane Austen

171. “The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!”

— Jane Austen

172. “One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.”

— Jane Austen

173. “My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?”

— Jane Austen

174. “I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.”

— Jane Austen

175. “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.”

— Jane Austen

176. “An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. 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

177. “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”

— Jane Austen

178. “It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.”

— Jane Austen

179. “I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”

— Jane Austen

180. “His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.”

— Jane Austen

181. “I have always maintained the importance of Aunts.”

— Jane Austen

182. “Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”

— Jane Austen

183. “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

184. “Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”

— Jane Austen

185. “Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.”

— Jane Austen

186. “I love you. Most ardently.”

— Jane Austen

187. “He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance...”

— Jane Austen

188. “Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”

— Jane Austen

189. “How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!”

— Jane Austen

190. “They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”

— Jane Austen

191. “It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.”

— Jane Austen

192. “Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.”

— Jane Austen

193. “No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.”

— Jane Austen

194. “I do not find it easy to talk to people I don’t know.”

— Jane Austen

195. “Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

— Jane Austen

196. “There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”

— Jane Austen

197. “You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”

— Jane Austen

198. “She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.”

— Jane Austen

199. “Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”

— Jane Austen

200. “It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.”

— Jane Austen