Skip to content

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

— Jane Austen

Another quote →

Topics

Fate

More quotes by Jane Austen

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Emma (1815)

All Jane Austen quotes →

You may also like

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

Daniel Webster

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

John Lewis

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

“Destiny,” said John. “The ghastliest word a man can speak.”

Poul Anderson The Corridors of Time (1965)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Jane Austen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.