The 70 best quotes by Jane Austen

Author of 'Pride and Prejudice', Austen was a reference in British literature of the 18th century.

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) was a famous British novelist who lived during the who lived during the so-called Georgian era.

Her particular way of writing with a certain comedy and irony have made her works the delight of readers, being this writer widely read even today. Among Austen's works we can highlight some such as: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility or Emma, all of them can be widely recommended.

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Great phrases and reflections of Jane Austen.

Below we have made a small selection of the 70 great quotes and reflections of Jane Austen. we have made a small selection of the 70 best quotes by Jane Austenso you can learn a little more about this remarkable representative of the British novel of the nineteenth century, we hope you enjoy them!

1. Our scars let us know that our past was real.

We all have some scars that remind us of what we have been through, they are an essential part of us.

2. A word from you will silence me forever.

We must know how to accept "no" when it comes.

3. A lady's imagination is very quick; it jumps from admiration to love and from love to marriage in a moment.

Life takes many turns and sometimes everything happens very fast.

4. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people half-heartedly; it is not my nature.

It is undoubtedly a great quality: knowing how to value our friends.

5. Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for each other.

Our partner's imperfections make them perfect for us.

6. Without music, life would be a blank space for me.

Music is something that can give a lot of brightness and color to our life.

7. You must know something of my philosophy. I think only of the past because the memory of it gives me pleasure.

Nostalgia is something we all experience sometime in life and if it hasn't happened to you, you simply haven't lived long enough.

8. And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I couldn't find a language to describe them.

There are certain feelings that are very difficult to express in simple words.

9. I wish, like everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

We all want to achieve happiness in our lives and we all have our own version of happiness.

10. Rarely, very rarely, does complete truth belong to any human revelation; rarely can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little wrong.

In life there is not only black and white, many issues have a lot of gray areas or ambiguities.

11. To wish was to wait and to wait was to wait.

In order to achieve what we desire, we must often wait for the right moment.

12. I must learn to be content to be happier than I deserve.

Many times we do not value all that life offers us.

13. Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

In the moment of life in which we find ourselves, we have instant pleasures and others that we wish to be able to feel.

14. In nine cases out of ten, a woman should show more affection than she feels.

Many times we do not show the feelings that we feel at that moment, we inhibit ourselves.

15. I have always maintained the importance of aunts.

The support of our family can be essential in our lives.

16. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

When someone fails us, our opinion of them changes forever.

17. But people themselves change so much that you always see something new in them.

In life we all change and evolve over time.

18. Distance is nothing when you have a reason.

When we really want to be with someone, we will cross land and sea to be with that person.

19. What terrible hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continuous state of inelegance.

Subtropical climates can reveal our most primitive physical appearance.

20. Half the world cannot understand each other's pleasures.

Within modern society there are many social strata, which are in a permanent struggle.

21. She was sensible and intelligent, but anxious in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

Some people simply cannot hide their concerns and feelings, these people are called extroverts.

22. My Heart is, and always will be, yours.

Love is a very powerful force, which can even change the world.

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

There are many kinds of love, as many kinds as there are people in the world.

24. Those who have not been given a taste for nature at an early age are to be pitied.

Who does not like to be in the middle of nature in order to feel totally free and relaxed?

It sometimes happens that a woman is more attractive at twenty-nine than she was ten years earlier.

Some women reach their fullness (as far as beauty is concerned) at ages that are not what many of us think.

26. One man's style should not be another man's rule.

All men should have our own style, different and unique in our own way, that identifies us.

27. A mind that is alive and at ease, can see nothing, can see nothing that it does not desire.

With the power of our mind and our imagination, we can go wherever we want to go.

28. Nobody can say what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

At certain times we all go through difficult moments, we must know how to get out of them by our own means.

29. The person, whether gentleman or lady, who has no pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Reading can be a very positive activity for all of us, it can help us in many aspects of our lives.

30. It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

When we are in a moment of great personal success, it is difficult to be humble when everyone around us is flattering us.

31. None of us wants to be in calm waters for the rest of our lives.

In order to become who we really want to be, we must know how to take risks on more than one occasion.

32. After all, I declare that there is no pleasure like reading! The sooner one tires of anything but a book! When I have my own home, I will be miserable if I don't have an excellent library.

No doubt reading is a wonderful activity, which Jane Austen as an author knew how to value highly.

33. One man's manners may be as good as another's; we all like the best of ourselves.

We all have our own way of expressing ourselves and relating to each other, which is no better or worse than that of another person.

34. If a woman is partial to a man, and does not make an effort to hide it, he must discover it.

We must know when a woman is fully sincere with her intentions, for this we must stop to listen to her.

35. Foolish things cease to be foolish if they are done by sensible people in a reckless way.

If we are such intelligent people, why do we do so many stupid things?

36. Love is fire.

Love is a force that can drive us to commit great follies.

37. Nothing amuses me more than the ease with which everyone arranges the abundance of those who have much less than they do.

Giving advice when our personal situation is better than that of the person being advised is something very easy to do; to really overcome many situations is what is really complicated.

38. The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it.

The world has many aspects with which no one is happy.

39. All men are surrounded by a neighborhood of willing spies.

Wherever we live, our near neighbors will always know where we stand.

40. Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Selfishness is an evil from which mankind has always suffered, however much we may make it seem to have no end.

41. There is stubbornness in me that can never bear to be frightened by the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

We must be persevering and know how to show courage when the situation calls for it.

42. It is not what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

It is our actions that define us as people; they say exactly who we are.

43. Then he left, to make himself even more interesting, in the middle of a heavy rain.

When we have nothing interesting to say or contribute, we might as well just leave.

44. Real and solemn history, they cannot interest me... The disputes of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences on every page; all the men are so good for nothing, and almost no women appear.

Women are the great forgotten ones in the history books, we must make this social injustice change.

45. Her heart whispered that he had done it for her.

The greatest follies we do are committed for our loved one.

46. It is very unfair to judge the conduct of any body without intimate knowledge of their situation.

We all go through different personal situations and these lead us to act in a certain way.

47. I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Even things that we often take for granted can depend on the perspective from which we look at them.

48. The worst crimes are crimes of the heart

Crimes of passion can indeed be the worst and most heinous.

49. As a general rule I deduce, that if a woman doubts whether or not she should accept a man, she should certainly reject him.

When a woman doubts about a man the best thing to do is to reject him; in matters of love one should never have doubts.

50. Do not think of me now as an elegant woman trying to infect you, but as a rational creature who speaks the truth from her heart.

In personal relationships we must understand and listen to the other person, knowing him in depth we will know if his intentions are really honest.

51. Everyone likes to follow his own path: choose his own time and devotion.

All human beings have the power to choose our own path in life, but it is also up to us where we go with it.

52. I am the happiest creature in the world. Maybe other people have said it before, but no one so fairly. I am happier even than Jane; she just smiles, I laugh.

Our personal happiness depends only on ourselves and the desire we really have to be happy at this very moment.

53. Why not seize pleasure at once? How often happiness is destroyed by preparation, senseless preparation!

We must know how to live in the present in order to truly appreciate happiness.

54. She told herself that she had no hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

Many times we harbor certain hopes that we know will most likely not be fulfilled.

55. One does not love a place, least of all for having suffered there, unless it was all suffering, nothing but suffering.

The place where we were raised and grew up will always be important to us, the Galicians call this particular feeling, "morriña".

56. He is a gentleman, and I am the daughter of a gentleman. So far we are equals.

Men and women always deserve in all possible situations the same consideration from us.

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

We should not let our friends or relatives, accommodate themselves to the help we give them, they should do their chores for themselves.

58. The more I know about the world, the more I am convinced that I will never see a man I can really love.

Finding a person with truly honest intentions is becoming more and more difficult.

59. A woman, especially if she has the misfortune to know something, should hide it as well as she can.

Knowing how to keep our own cards is something that as a person we should all know how to do.

60. A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion upon that of others.

Some of us find ourselves totally disconnected from today's society.

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

It is curious how many wealthy men have not found wives even at an advanced age.

62. Follies and follies, whims and inconsistencies divert me, I admit, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Indeed, follies and foolishness help us to distract us in our daily lives.

63. There are certainly not so many men of great fortune in the world, for there are many beautiful women who deserve them.

In this quote Jane Austen tells us about the search that many women go through for a man with an affluent economic position.

64. He had a cheerful, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Being cheerful is a quality that not all of us possess, but it sure would help us to be a little happier.

65. A vast business can be done by those who dare to act.

In order to prosper in the business world we must act decisively and be bold.

66. Facts or opinions which have to pass through the hands of so many, to be misinterpreted through folly in some and ignorance in others, can hardly have much truth in them.

When a piece of news passes through many people, it is sure to reach us totally adulterated.

67. If I could know your heart, everything would be easy.

Who would not like to know what his loved one is thinking?

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

To rush is something that evidently is not positive, to know how to wait for the exact moment will allow us to reach our objective.

69. When the pain ends, the memory of it often becomes a pleasure.

With the passing of time we learn to overcome the hardest moments of our lives.

70. I spend too much time without looking for a good book, I feel I have done nothing useful with my life.

For this writer, reading was a fundamental part of her life.