Top 500 Jane Austen Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”

— Jane Austen

252. “One can never have too large a party.”

— Jane Austen

253. “Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”

— Jane Austen

254. “The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!”

— Jane Austen

255. “Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.”

— Jane Austen

256. “Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.”

— Jane Austen

257. “There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”

— Jane Austen

258. “There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. – Mr. Knightley.”

— Jane Austen

259. “It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle;.”

— Jane Austen

260. “Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

— Jane Austen

261. “Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton’s beginning to talk to him.”

— Jane Austen

262. “I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.”

— Jane Austen

263. “I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.”

— Jane Austen

264. “Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.”

— Jane Austen

265. “She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.”

— Jane Austen

266. “Keep your breath to cool your porridge’; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.”

— Jane Austen

267. “None but a woman can teach the science of herself.”

— Jane Austen

268. “From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.”

— Jane Austen

269. “There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.”

— Jane Austen

270. “Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.”

— Jane Austen

271. “Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.”

— Jane Austen

272. “Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.”

— Jane Austen

273. “This was a lucky recollection – it saved her from something like regret.”

— Jane Austen

274. “I trust that absolutes have gradations.”

— Jane Austen

275. “There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.”

— Jane Austen

276. “I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.”

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

278. “She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.”

— Jane Austen

279. “A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.”

— Jane Austen

280. “I am all astonishment.”

— Jane Austen

281. “A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.”

— Jane Austen

282. “How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!”

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

284. “Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.”

— Jane Austen

285. “Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...”

— Jane Austen

286. “Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love.”

— Jane Austen

287. “Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself.”

— Jane Austen

288. “I know I shall probably never see him again, but I cannot bear to think that he is alive in the world and thinking ill of me.”

— Jane Austen

289. “The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.”

— Jane Austen

290. “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

291. “Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.”

— Jane Austen

292. “By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon, for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.”

— Jane Austen

293. “It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.”

— Jane Austen

294. “Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.”

— Jane Austen

295. “Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.”

— Jane Austen

296. “I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.”

— Jane Austen

297. “I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.”

— Jane Austen

298. “He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.”

— Jane Austen

299. “I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.”

— Jane Austen

300. “With women, the heart argues, not the mind.”

— Jane Austen