Quotes by : Jane Austen

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our....

What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been....

The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to escape;....

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means....

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present....

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

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

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

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as....

He shortly found himself arrived at politics and from politics it was an easy step to silence.