Jane Austen
English
About Jane Austen
English novelist known for the social satire of Pride and Prejudice and Emma, and who published her novels anonymously in her lifetime.
Quotes by Jane Austen
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach.
I loved him against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?