Quotes By Jane Austen
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. 
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
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How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
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