Quote

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

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
Ought
Knew
Happy

More quotes by Jane Austen

Image
A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
Jane Austen
Image
I trust that absolutes have gradations.
Jane Austen
Image
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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
Image
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane Austen
Image
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
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
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.
Jane Austen
Image
I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.
Jane Austen
Image
I am happier than Jane she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.
Jane Austen
Image
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.
Jane Austen
Image
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference? - Elizabeth Bennet
Jane Austen
Image
if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
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
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing
Jane Austen
Image
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
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
Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
Jane Austen
Image
By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.
Jane Austen
Image
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
Jane Austen