Jane Austen Quotes

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

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.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

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

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

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

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.