My Favourite Jane Austen Quotes

Here are a few of my favourite Jane Austen quotes from her books Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Emma and Northanger Abbey.

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” 
– Northanger Abbey

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” 
– Pride and Prejudice

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” 
– Pride and Prejudice

“It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
– Sense and Sensibility

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
– Emma

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.” 
– Pride and Prejudice

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
– Pride and Prejudice

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
– Emma

“What is right to be done, cannot be done too soon.”
– Emma

“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”
– Mansfield Park

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
– Northanger Abbey

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.”
– Persuasion

“Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy.”
– Pride and Prejudice