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Jane Austen was an English Novelist/Georgia-era author who was known for her six major novels which are, Sense of Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma , and the two novels that were published posthumously, the Northanger Abbey , and Persuasion .ย
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, England. She was a novelist best known for her works that interpret, critic and comment upon the British landed gentry in the 18th century. Her novels define as the era novel of manners, but also a timeless classic novel.
We hope that you enjoy the following 50 Jane Austen Quotes to give you some useful life lessons.
Jane Austen Quotes
โEverything nourishes what is strong already.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
โFrom politics it was an easy step to silence.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Northanger Abbey (1818)
โThe sooner every party breaks up, the better.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Emma, 25
โYou pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Persuasion (1818)
โThose who do not complain are never pitied.โ
โOne day in the country is exactly like another.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Northanger Abbey (1818)
โI cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Northanger Abbey (1818)
โHappiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
โWe do not look in great cities for our best morality.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Mansfield Park (1814)
โWell! Evil to some is always good to others.โ
โHow quick come the reasons for approving what we like!โ
JANE AUSTEN, Persuasion (1818)
โIt is very difficult for the prosperous to be humbleโฆโ
JANE AUSTEN, Emma (1833 edition)
โI am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Letter to Cassandra (1799-05-17)
โWith them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Sense and Sensibility (1811)
โA vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.โ
โAh! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Emma (1815)
โIf I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Emma (1816)
โThink only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice (1813) ch. 58
โMary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice (ed. 1853)
โNothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.โ
โI do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Emma (ed. 1833)
โVanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Emma (1815)
โShe felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice (ed. 1853)
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
JANE AUSTEN, Emma (ed. 1833)
โThose who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.โ
โHave a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and prejudice: a novel (ed. 1836)
โI have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from loveโ
JANE AUSTEN, Sense and Sensibility: a Novel (ed. Richard Bentley, 1833)
โOne cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice: A Novel (ed. 1852)
โI could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice (ed. 1853)
โIt isnโt what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.โ
โYou know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Letter to Cassandra (1808-06-15)
โIt is not every manโs fate to marry the woman who loves him best.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Emma (ed. 1833)
โHis feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Emma (ed. 1833)
โWe live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion (ed. 1833)
โBut there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.โ
โShe denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Illustrated Cabinet Edition [of the Works Of] Jane Austen (ed. 1906)
โThe enthusiasm of a womanโs love is even beyond the biographerโs.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Mansfield Park (1814)
โA person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.โ
JANE AUSTEN, The Novels of Jane Austen: Pride and prejudice (ed. 1959)
โMen were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and prejudice: a sentimental comedy in three acts (ed. 1936)
โOne half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.โ
โI have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes (ed. 1811)
โTo be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
โThe Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Northanger Abbey (ed. 1833)
โGood apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Jane Austenโs Letters (2011 edition), Oxford University Press โ ISBN: 9780199576074
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.โ
โI am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like.โ
JANE AUSTEN, J. E. Austen-Leigh A Memoir of Jane Austen (1926 ed.)
โPeople always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.โ
JANE AUSTEN, Sense and Sensibility (1811)
โHer own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.โ
JANE AUSTEN, The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen (ed. 1906)
โOne half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other halfโฆโ
JANE AUSTEN, Northanger abbey, and Persuasion (ed. 1853)
โWhen pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.โ
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