This is the second edition of my new blog post series featuring favorite bookish quotes. This week I’m featuring quotes from my favorite classic author, Jane Austen. There are so many quotes that I had to divide them into categories.
Quotes about reading:
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die…”
― Margaret Drabble, Sense and Sensibility
Life/Love:
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion
“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
― Jane Austen, Emma
“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion
“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride related to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice