Jane Austen Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Inspiring, Happy

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.6.

• A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Mind, Doe

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.198

• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Thinking, Vanity

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26, Waking Lion Press

• In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Funny Relationship

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.123

• The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Men, Literature

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

• There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, People, Literature

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.945, Ageless Reads

• We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Happiness, Being Yourself

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.368

• One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Men, Style

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.571, MobileReference

• I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Literature, Speak

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.41, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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

  Jane Austen

  Love, Literature, Might

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.262, Wild Jot Press

• One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Success, Sex

  Emma ch. 9 (1816)

• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Hope, Selfish

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.

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

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Falling In Love, Dancing

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.99, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Men, Order

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

  Jane Austen

  Dresses, Literature, Solicitude

  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.1560, Wildside Press LLC

• Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Reality, Men

• One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Literature, May

  Persuasion ch. 13 (1818)

• Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

  Jane Austen

  Laughing, Prejudice, Literature

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.75

• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Humility, Hype

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

  Jane Austen

  Time, Watches, Literature

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.301, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Nature, Interesting Situations

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.159

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

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Mrs Bennet, Prejudice

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 24 (1813)

• An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

  Jane Austen

  Power, Done, Literature

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.305, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

  Jane Austen

  Half, Literature, States

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.438

• You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Pregnancy

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen on Love and Romance”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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