Jane Austen Quotes

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

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

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From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

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o look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

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I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.

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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.