Top 500 Jane Austen Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.”

— Jane Austen

202. “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

203. “Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.”

— Jane Austen

204. “She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation.”

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

207. “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

208. “Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”

— Jane Austen

209. “I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.”

— Jane Austen

210. “Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride – where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.”

— Jane Austen

211. “We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.”

— Jane Austen

212. “It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”

— Jane Austen

213. “How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.”

— Jane Austen

214. “Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”

— Jane Austen

215. “A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.”

— Jane Austen

216. “None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

— Jane Austen

217. “This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.”

— Jane Austen

218. “Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”

— Jane Austen

219. “Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”

— Jane Austen

220. “I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man’s being in love if he chose it.”

— Jane Austen

221. “She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.”

— Jane Austen

222. “What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”

— Jane Austen

223. “I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more.”

— Jane Austen

224. “Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”

— Jane Austen

225. “It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.”

— Jane Austen

226. “I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.”

— Jane Austen

227. “That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.”

— Jane Austen

228. “To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”

— Jane Austen

229. “Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some.”

— Jane Austen

230. “We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

— Jane Austen

231. “Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.”

— Jane Austen

232. “Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”

— Jane Austen

233. “A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of.”

— Jane Austen

234. “If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.”

— Jane Austen

235. “Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”

— Jane Austen

236. “But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”

— Jane Austen

237. “But to appear happy when I am so miserable – Oh! who can require it?”

— Jane Austen

238. “I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived – my breakfast supplied only two ideas – that the rolls were good and the butter bad.”

— Jane Austen

239. “Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.”

— Jane Austen

240. “Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation.”

— Jane Austen

241. “You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”

— Jane Austen

242. “The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.”

— Jane Austen

243. “You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.”

— Jane Austen

244. “I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”

— Jane Austen

245. “Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”

— Jane Austen

246. “I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”

— Jane Austen

247. “We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”

— Jane Austen

248. “Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.”

— Jane Austen

249. “Beware how you give your heart.”

— Jane Austen

250. “Everything nourishes what is strong already.”

— Jane Austen