Jane Austen Quotes

Jane Austen  (1775-1817) English Novelist

These Jane Austen quotes and sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. - Jane Austen


I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. - Jane Austen


The less said the better. - Jane Austen


You have delighted us long enough. - Jane Austen


Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! - Jane Austen


It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. - Jane Austen


I pay very little regard, to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. - Jane Austen


One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. - Jane Austen


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