Jane Austen (1775–1817) remains a literary icon, celebrated for her sharp wit, social satire, and timeless wisdom. Through classics like Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, she challenged societal norms with humor and insight. But Austen's brilliance isn't just in her stories, it's in her words. Her quotes continue to inspire, offering wisdom on love, life, and society. Here's a collection of her most memorable lines and how they can still guide us today.
Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love," said Darcy.
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope... I have loved none but you.
Jane Austen - Persuasion
The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
Jane Austen - Love and Friendship
When I fall in love, it will be forever
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
Jane Austen - Persuasion
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more
Jane Austen - Emma
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen - Jane Austen's Letters
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
Jane Austen - Emma
Angry people are not always wise.
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen - Emma
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavor to conceal it, he must find it out.
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it…
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
"Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Various works by Jane Austen.
It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
