Quotes by Jane Austen

“You cant put your feet on the ground until youve touched the sky.”

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

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.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Biti dobro upućen u stvari znači lišiti druge mogućnosti da udovolje svojoj taštini, što će pametan čovek uvek nastojati da izbegne.

Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”~ Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

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.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

I will not talk of my own happiness, said he, great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?