20+ Famous Jane Austen Quotes

Below are some of the most famous Jane Austen Quotes which are carefully selected from her published novels. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. Emma.

Below are some of the most famous Jane Austen Quotes which are carefully selected from her published novels and some of her personal correspondence. 

About Jane Austen

Jane Austen is considered as one of the greatest humourist writers in British culture. Her writing was recognized for the ironic effects in her writing in which she often use to make universal statements. She published a notable list of novels, with ' Pride And Prejudice' as one.

Jane Austen died at the age of 41 in the small cottage in a community where she spent most of her life 

Jane Austen Quotes

Here is a list of James Austen quotes with the names of the writing they appear from underneath.

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."

— From Pride And Prejudice

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"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

— From Pride And Prejudice

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

— From Northanger Abbey

"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."

— From Northanger Abbey

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.

— From Pride And Prejudice

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

— From Jane Austen's Letters

"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!"

— From Sense and Sensibility

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

— From Pride And Prejudice

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."

— From Pride And Prejudice

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

— From Mansfield Park

".Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"

— From Pride And Prejudice

" Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like."

—Mansfield Park

" It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

— From Pride And Prejudice

" You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."

— From Pride And Prejudice

" Those who do not complain are never pitied."

— From Pride And Prejudice

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."

— From Sense and Sensibility

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

— From — From Emma

"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"

— From — From Persuasion

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

— From Emma

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours and laugh at them in our turn?"

— From Pride And Prejudice

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

— From Persuasion

" Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."

— From Emma

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

— From Pride And Prejudice

" There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."

Mansfield Park

" I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."

— From Emma

"My sore throats are always worse than anyones."

— From Persuasion

" Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."

— From Pride And Prejudice

" Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of."

— From Pride And Prejudice

"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often "considerable.

— From Emma

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

— From Pride And Prejudice

"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."

— From Mansfield Park

"One cannot have too large a party."

— From Emma