Quotes from Jane Austen

I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

Almost anything is possible with time

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

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

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.