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Jane Austen Quotes about Feelings

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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

Healing, Feelings, Language

Jane Austen (2013). “Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition”, p.141, Harvard University Press

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

Thinking, Feelings, Miserable

Jane Austen (1857). “Mansfield park”, p.185

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

Home, Feelings, Quiet

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

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

Selfish, Men, Feelings

Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.133

Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

Errors, People, Feelings

Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.429, Open Road Media

I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.

House, Stupidity, Feelings

Jane Austen (2014). “Emma”, p.188, Lulu.com

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Heart, Two, Feelings

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.509, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

Pride, Silence, Feelings

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.458, Wordsworth Editions

His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

Feelings, Imagine, I Can

Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.225

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

Heart, Two, Feelings

Jane Austen (2012). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion”, p.574, Modern Library

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

Book, Men, Feelings

Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

Agony, Soul, Feelings

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1372, Wordsworth Editions

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

Heart, Men, Feelings

Jane Austen (2008). “Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)”, p.196, Mondial

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Feelings, Opinion, Reason

Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

Strong, Feelings, Taste

'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 11

Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

Eye, Expression, Feelings

Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.233, BookBaby

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Giving, Feelings, Receiving

Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.422

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

Heart, Men, Feelings

Jane Austen (2012). “Emma (Illustrated Edition)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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