Jane Austen Quotes

“I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

topic:happiness

“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”

― Jane Austen, Emma

topic:happiness foolishness

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

topic:happiness hope patience

“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, Persuasion

topic:truth ignorance opinion

“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, Emma

topic:truth honesty

“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 and Sensibility

topic:time

“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, Mansfield Park

topic:time

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:women strength courage bravery

“Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:women reason honesty

“Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without farther expense to anybody.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

topic:women freedom education

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