Jane Austen Cool & famous Quotes by

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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• Inspirational

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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• Books

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

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• Love

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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• Humor

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

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• Love

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

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• Love

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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• Love

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

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• Happiness

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

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• Love

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

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• Romance

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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• Love

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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• Happiness

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

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• Humor

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

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• Humor

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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• Humor