Quote

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

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
Marry
Prejudice
Romance
Affection
Integrity
Rather
Anything
Lizzy
Without
Matrimony

More quotes by Jane Austen

Image
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
Jane Austen
Image
I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like
Jane Austen
Image
And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.
Jane Austen
Image
No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Jane Austen
Image
We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
Jane Austen
Image
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Jane Austen
Image
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
Jane Austen
Image
If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.
Jane Austen
Image
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
Jane Austen
Image
I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!
Jane Austen
Image
Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.
Jane Austen
Image
she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.
Jane Austen
Image
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
Jane Austen
Image
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
Jane Austen
Image
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
Jane Austen
Image
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen
Image
Do not give way to useless alarm though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
Jane Austen
Image
Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.
Jane Austen
Image
Arguments are too much like disputes.
Jane Austen
Image
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
Jane Austen