# Jane Austen - Quotes: 256 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen ## Books - [Emma](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma.md) — 38 quotes - [Mansfield Park](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/mansfield-park.md) — 17 quotes - [Northanger Abbey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey.md) — 31 quotes - [Persuasion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/persuasion.md) — 24 quotes - [Pride and Prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice.md) — 118 quotes - [Sense and Sensibility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/sense-and-sensibility.md) — 28 quotes ## Recently added quotes > It is probable that she will neither love so well, nor flirt so well, as she might do either singly., p. 302, 2013 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/it-is-probable.md) > A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/a-woman-especially.md) > But historians are not accountable for the difficulty of learning to read; and even you yourself, who do not altogether seem particularly friendly to very severe, very intense application, may perhaps be brought to acknowledge that it is very well worth while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it., p. 228, 2013 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/but-historians-are.md) > I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving ready-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured., p. 428, 2013, en:s:Northanger Abbey/Chapter 24 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/i-am-come.md) > You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds on happiness as possible., p. 356, 2013, en:s:Northanger Abbey/Chapter 22 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/you-have-gained.md) > “I use the verb ‘to torment,’ as I observed to be your own method, instead of ‘to instruct,’ supposing them to be now admitted as synonimous.”, p. 228, 2013 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/i-use-the.md) > A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride., p. 284, 2013, en:s:Northanger Abbey/Chapter 17 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/a-distinction-to-which.md) > “That little boys and girls should be tormented,” said Henry, “is what no one at all acquainted with human nature in a civilized state can deny; but in behalf of our most distinguished historians, I must observe, that they might well be offended at being supposed to have no higher aim; and that by their method and style, they are perfectly well qualified to torment readers of the most advanced reason and mature time of life.”, p. 226, 2013 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/that-little-boys.md) > "But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. ... it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/but-history-real.md) > Prepare for your sister-in-law, Eleanor, and such a sister-in-law as you must delight in! Open, candid, artless, guileless, with affections strong but simple, forming no pretensions, and knowing no disguise. en:s:Northanger Abbey/Chapter 25 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/prepare-for-your.md) > His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain., p. 448, 2013, en:s:Northanger Abbey/Chapter 28 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/his-departure-gave.md) > You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonimous words., p. 228, 2013 [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey/you-think-me-foolish.md)