Jane Austen Quotes about Fate

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I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

Jane Austen

Fate, Gowns, Impatient

Jane Austen, Vivien Jones (2004). “Selected Letters”, p.30, Oxford University Press, USA

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

Jane Austen

Fate, Men, Every Man

Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.231

We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

Jane Austen

Book, Home, Fate

1818 Of the difference between women and men. Persuasion, ch.23.

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

Jane Austen

Fate, Opinion, Favourite

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.230, Wordsworth Editions