Jane Austen Quotes

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

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

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

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

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

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

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Almost anything is possible with time.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

Time did not compose her.

Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

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