Quotes from Jane Austen

Time, time will heal the wound.

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

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

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

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

We are all fools in love.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

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.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

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.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Beware how you give your heart.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.