Quotes by : Jane Austen

Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be....

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the....

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…....

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely;....

It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her....

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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

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