Quotes by Jane Austen
5 quotes by Jane Austen (died 1817), taken from 4 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park.
Pride and Prejudice
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“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
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“I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
Persuasion
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“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”
Sense and Sensibility
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“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
Mansfield Park
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“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory.”