If you’re a fan of Jane Austen, then you know that her novels are filled with witty quotes. In fact, there are so many great ones that we decided to put together a list of 75 of the best ones!
From Pride and Prejudice to Emma, these memorable lines are sure to make you swoon.
Whether you’re looking for words of wisdom or just something to make you laugh, these quotes will hit the spot. So sit back, relax, and enjoy some of the best quotes from one of the most talented authors ever!
Jane Austen Quotes
- “Every savage can dance.” – Jane Austen
- “An artist cannot do anything slovenly.” – Jane Austen
- “Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.” – Jane Austen
- “Those who do not complain are never pitied.” – Jane Austen
- “From politics, it was an easy step to silence.” – Jane Austen
- “Nobody minds having what is too good for them.” – Jane Austen
- “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.” – Jane Austen
- “My sore throats are always worse than anyone’s.” – Jane Austen
- “Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.” – Jane Austen
- “I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.” – Jane Austen
- “What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.” – Jane Austen
- “One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.” – Jane Austen
- “Is not general incivility the very essence of love? – Jane Austen
- “Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.” – Jane Austen
- “Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.” – Jane Austen
- “Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” – Jane Austen
- “How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! – Jane Austen
- “It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.” – Jane Austen
- “Angry people are not always wise.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- “Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.” – Jane Austen
- “There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” – Jane Austen
- “What are men to rocks and mountains?” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ” – Jane Austen, Emma
- “We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.” – Jane Austen
- “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” – Jane Austen
- “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.” – Jane Austen
- “Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.” – Jane Austen
- “Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.” – Jane Austen
- “Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.” – Jane Austen
- “A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” – Jane Austen
- “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” – Jane Austen, Emma
- “To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.” – Jane Austen
- “A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.” – Jane Austen
- “I have not the pleasure of understanding you.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.” – Jane Austen
- “Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.” – Jane Austen
- “If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.” – Jane Austen
- “One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.” – Jane Austen
- “Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.” – Jane Austen
- “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.” – Jane Austen
- “Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” – Jane Austen
- “I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.” – Jane Austen
- “In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.” – Jane Austen
- “There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.” – Jane Austen
- “General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.” – Jane Austen
- “Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.” – Jane Austen
- “Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” – Jane Austen
- “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- “There is safety in reserve, but no attraction.” One cannot love a reserved person.” – Jane Austen
- “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- “They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.” – Jane Austen
- “It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.” – Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
- “There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.” – Jane Austen
- “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen
- “What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! – Jane Austen
- “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope…I have loved none but you.” – Jane Austen, Persuasion
- “The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” – Jane Austen, Love and Friendship
- “To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” – Jane Austen
- “I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” – Jane Austen
- “One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.” – Jane Austen
- “I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.” – Jane Austen
- “It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.” – Jane Austen
- “It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.” – Jane Austen
- “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.” – Jane Austen, Emma
- “We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.” – Jane Austen
- “A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.” – Jane Austen
- “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” – Jane Austen
- “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” – Jane Austen
- “A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” – Jane Austen
- “Surprises are foolish things.” The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.” – Jane Austen
- “A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.” – Jane Austen
- “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
- “Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.” – Jane Austen
- “There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.” – Jane Austen
Wrapping Up
No matter the occasion, Jane Austen’s works are full of wonderful quotes that can bring a bit of wisdom and romance to any conversation. From witty observations to declarations of love, these 75 Jane Austen quotes will make you swoon!
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