Quotes by Jane Austen

“[when told not to speak ill of the dead] Just because someone is dead does not mean they have changed!”

“Go on - but dont think you can kill my confidence. Ive had experts doing it for years.”

“It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, Christ, Ive been sweating and crying for seven years.”

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

“I have noticed that when things happen in ones imaginings, they never happen in ones life.”

“Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.”

“When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isnt safe.”

“Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.”

“There is something revolting about the way girls minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.”

“All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”

“I do not know what moss stands for in the proverb, but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.”

“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”

“Talent wont be quiet, doesnt know how to be quiet. [...] It never shuts up. Itll wake you in the middle of your tiredest night, screaming, Use me, use me, use me! Im tired of just sitting her! Use me, fuckhead, use me!”

“You neednt die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end.”

“Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.”

“Theres hope for everyone. Thats what makes the world go round.”

“Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.”

“If youre not ready for everything, youre not ready for anything.”

“So will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For loves ever been the more destructive weapon.”

“First come smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.”