Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jane Austen (English Novelist)

Jane Austen (1775–1817) was a English novelist who wrote such celebrated novels Sense and Sensibility (1811,) Pride and Prejudice (1813,) Mansfield Park (1814,) Emma (1815,) and Persuasion (1818.) The latter, together with the earlier Northanger Abbey (begun in 1798,) were published after her death.

Austen was born into the English gentry, whose customs feature prominently in her novels. She shared a room for her whole life with her older sister Cassandra. Neither of them ever married. Not much is known about Jane’s life beyond minor details recorded in the letters that have survived—Cassandra burned or edited most of Jane’s correspondence. Jane had no personal acquaintance with any other prominent writer.

At the focal point of all of Austen’s novels is the complicated maneuvering that leads to marriage. Austen considers marriage not as a dull romantic climax, but as a complex moral and social conciliation that exposes much about human nature and frailty by substituting mental clarity and good judgment with idealization and self-deception. In Sense and Sensibility, her first book, Austen attempts to make sense of the discord between demands of heart and head. In Pride and Prejudice, Austen’s best-known novel, protagonist Elizabeth Bennet realizes how appearances could mislead, and what she could learn from recognizing the prejudices of the observer.

Austen died at 42, probably of Addison’s disease, lymphoma, or—as has been recently alleged—arsenic poisoning.

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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
Jane Austen
Topics: Letters

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Jane Austen
Topics: Love, Affection

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen
Topics: Pessimism, Complaining, Sympathy, Problems, Complaints

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane Austen
Topics: Opinions, Public opinion, Opinion

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
Topics: Business, Money, Friendship

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
Topics: Marriage

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

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
Topics: Home

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Jane Austen
Topics: Women, Men & Women, Men, Men and Women

Only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.
Jane Austen
Topics: Fiction, Authors & Writing

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Jane Austen
Topics: Religion, Churches

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
Jane Austen
Topics: Excellence

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?
Jane Austen
Topics: Flattery

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen
Topics: Nature

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help
Jane Austen
Topics: Wine

Grant us grace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
Jane Austen
Topics: Prayer

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
Jane Austen
Topics: Fortune, Men & Women, Family

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
Jane Austen
Topics: Disappointment

The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!
Jane Austen
Topics: Memory

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
Jane Austen
Topics: Friendship

In vain have I struggled, it will not do. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Jane Austen
Topics: Love, Pride, Will

And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dear Emma’s little faults, she is an excellent creature. Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? No, no; she has qualities which may be trusted; she will never lead any one really wrong; she will make no lasting blunder; where Emma errs once, she is in the right a hundred times.
Jane Austen
Topics: Loyalty

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen
Topics: Women

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen
Topics: Marriage

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen
Topics: Work

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen
Topics: Principles, Selfishness

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
Jane Austen
Topics: Dance, Dancing

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen
Topics: Optimism

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
Jane Austen
Topics: Men, Men & Women, Women, Men and Women

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