Famous Jane Austen Quotes

  • Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling. – Jane Austen

    Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.– Jane Austen

  • Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. – Jane Austen

    Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.– Jane Austen

  • The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in reading a good novel, must be incredibly stupid – Jane Austen

    The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in reading a good novel, must be incredibly stupid– Jane Austen

  • With a book, he was regardless of time. – Jane Austen

    With a book, he was regardless of time.– Jane Austen

  • Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable! – Jane Austen

    Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!– Jane Austen

  • We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to. – Jane Austen

    We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.– Jane Austen

  • He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal. – Jane Austen

    He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal.– Jane Austen

  • She felt the loss of Willoughby’s character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart. – Jane Austen

    She felt the loss of Willoughby’s character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.– Jane Austen

  • But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before. – Jane Austen

    But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before.– Jane Austen

  • -¦Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched. – Jane Austen

    -¦Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.– Jane Austen