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Jane Austen Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much.”
— Jane Austen, Jane Austen: The Complete Works: Classics hardcover boxed set (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Tagged: Love, Expectations, Standards
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: Friendship, Love, All Or Nothing
“Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: Friendship, Friends
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: first lines of books
“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.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Love, humanity, Life
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Reading, Books, Learning
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Forever With You
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Reading, Books, Libraries, Happiness
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: Books, Reading, stupidity
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy — it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
— Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
“I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.”
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
Tagged: Fall Out Of Love, Lost Love, Forgetting
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Tagged: True Love, Love, Friends, Nature
“Our scars make us know that our past was real.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Past, Healing, Survival, Moving Forward
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Marriage, Love, Relationships, Midlife Crisis
“Our scars make us know that our past was for real.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Scars, Past, Pain
“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 every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. ”
— Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice
Tagged: JaneAusten, TheHumanCondition
“She was stronger alone. ”
— Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
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