Jane Austen Quotes

"There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences." ~ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen "It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?" ~ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen "Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be." ~ Emma by Jane Austen "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" ~ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance." ~ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen She had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them. ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen "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." ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen "One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best." ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen "What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!" ~ Persuasion by Jane Austen