QuotesJane Austen quotes
Jane Austen (1775 to 1817) was an English novelist. Her six novels are comedies of manners with a sharp eye for vanity and good sense. Each line below names the novel it comes from.
Quotations
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)Angry people are not always wise.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)My good opinion once lost is lost for ever.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen, Emma (1815)There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen, Emma (1815)One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen, Emma (1815)Know your own happiness.
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811)Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814)Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817)The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817)
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Good to know
- Many of these lines are spoken by characters, and Austen often means them ironically. The speaker of the famous line about novels is the charming Henry Tilney. The line about angry people comes from the narrator.