Quote

What strange creatures brothers are!

Jane Austen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Brothers
Creatures
Brother
Strange

More quotes by Jane Austen

Image
A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
Jane Austen
Image
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.
Jane Austen
Image
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
Jane Austen
Image
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Jane Austen
Image
The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!
Jane Austen
Image
But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
Jane Austen
Image
Well, my dear, said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.
Jane Austen
Image
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
Jane Austen
Image
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane Austen
Image
Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.
Jane Austen
Image
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
Jane Austen
Image
She attracted him more than he liked.
Jane Austen
Image
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
Jane Austen
Image
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world
Jane Austen
Image
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.
Jane Austen
Image
Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love it is not my way, or my nature and I do not think I ever shall.
Jane Austen
Image
It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.
Jane Austen
Image
I trust that absolutes have gradations.
Jane Austen
Image
Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.
Jane Austen
Image
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Jane Austen