Jane Austen Quotes

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there

You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite.

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

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

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.