Jane Austen

You have delighted us long enough.

—Jane Austen

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

—Jane Austen

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything 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

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

—Jane Austen

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

—Jane Austen

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

—Jane Austen

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

—Jane Austen

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

—Jane Austen

We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

—Jane Austen

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.

—Jane Austen

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

—Jane Austen

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

—Jane Austen

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.

—Jane Austen

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

—Jane Austen