Famous Quotes by Jane Austen

“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

“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

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”

Jane Austen

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”

Jane Austen

“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

Jane Austen

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

Jane Austen

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

Jane Austen

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

Jane Austen

“It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?”

Jane Austen

“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”

Jane Austen

“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.”

Jane Austen

“Angry people are not always wise.”

Jane Austen

“I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.”

Jane Austen

“no hay que desesperar de lograr aquello que deseamos, pues la asiduidad, si es constante, consigue el fin que se propone...”

Jane Austen

“Te aseguro que no soy de las que quieren a medias. Mis sentimientos siempre son profundos y arraigados...”

Jane Austen

“Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?”

Jane Austen

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.”

Jane Austen

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”

Jane Austen

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”

Jane Austen

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

Jane Austen

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

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late.

Jane Austen

Chivalry is not about grand gestures; it is found in the quiet moments of respect and kindness.

Jane Austen