Jane Austen Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Jane Austen quotes, Jane Austen sayings, and Jane Austen proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? Jane Austen
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. Jane Austen
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. Jane Austen
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. Jane Austen
The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. Jane Austen
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. Jane Austen
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. Jane Austen
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else. Jane Austen
It's not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men. Jane Austen
A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else. Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Jane Austen
There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. Jane Austen
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. Jane Austen
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. Jane Austen
None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen
Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections. Jane Austen
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. Jane Austen
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen
If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it. Jane Austen
The distance is nothing when one has a motive. Jane Austen
Nobody minds having what is too good for them. Jane Austen
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment Jane Austen
Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have. Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen
Almost anything is possible with time. Jane Austen
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away. Jane Austen
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required. Jane Austen