Jane Austen Opinion Quotations

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

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

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.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.