She is witty, spoilt, and the more unique and exciting protagonist from Jane Austen’s books. She is Emma – a strong, opinionated young woman you will fall in love with.
Emma is probably the most evolving character from Austen’s books as she evolves throughout the novel, discovering herself and learning to become a proper adult.
Though this is one of the most colorful heroines from Austen’s books, it is also the one who is the most criticized. You either love her to no end, or you are annoyed.. to no end. Which end is yours?
Today, I give you 40 timeless quotes from Emma by Jane Austen to keep you entertained and give you a glimpse of forgotten times and traditions.
Quotes From Emma by Jane Austen
1. “There is always one thing a man can do if he so chooses, and that is his duty.”
2. “He had caught both substance and shadow — both fortune and affection and was just the happy man he ought to be.”
3. “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
4. “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.”
5. “I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
6. “There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
7. “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
8. “Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
9. “You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
10. “Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.”
11. “She was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love.”
12. “It’s such a happiness when good people get together.”
13. “It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.”
14. “The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!”
15. “A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.”
Witty Quotes From Emma By Jane Austen
16. “A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and maybe as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.”
17. “I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more”
18. “Were I to fall in love; indeed, it would be a different thing! But I have never been in love; it is not my way or my nature, and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.”
19. “A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.”
20. “Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if anywhere.”
21. “My being charming…is not quite enough to induce me to marry. I must find other people charming – one other person at least.”
22. “How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
23. “I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love.”
24. “I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.”
25. “I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed.”
26. “I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more.”
27. “She will never submit to anything requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.”
28. “Men never know when things are dirty or not; women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.”
29. “Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject.”
Jane Austen’s Emma – Bets Quotes
30. “There are people, who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
31. “When one is in great pain, you know one cannot feel any blessing quite as it may deserve.”
32. “The removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another.”
33. “And yet she was a happy woman and a woman whom no one named without good will. It was her own universal good will and contented temper which worked such wonders. She loved everybody, was interested in everybody’s happiness, quick sight to everybody’s merits; thought herself a most fortunate creature, and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother, and so many good neighbors and friends, and a home that wanted for nothing. The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to everybody, and a mine of felicity to herself.”
34. “There had been no real affection either in his language or manners. Sighs and fine words had been given in abundance, but she could hardly devise any set of expressions or fancy any tone of voice, less allied with real love.”
35. “Feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.—Every consideration of the subject, in short, makes me thankful that my happiness is not more deeply involved.—I shall do very well again after a little while—and then, it will be a good thing over, for they say everybody is in love once in their lives, and I shall have been let off easily.”
36. “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other”
37. “This one half hour had given to each the same precious certainty of being beloved.”
38. “You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
39. “Even pleasure, you know, is fatiguing.”
40. “She will give you all the minute particulars, which only woman’s language can make interesting – in our communications, we only deal in the great.”
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