diff --git a/mongoengine/base.py b/mongoengine/base.py
index 76a2c0e9..b37edcbf 100644
--- a/mongoengine/base.py
+++ b/mongoengine/base.py
@@ -270,6 +270,18 @@ class BaseDocument(object):
     def __len__(self):
         return len(self._data)
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        try:
+            u = unicode(self)
+        except (UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
+            u = '[Bad Unicode data]'
+        return u'<%s: %s>' % (self.__class__.__name__, u)
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        if hasattr(self, '__unicode__'):
+            return unicode(self).encode('utf-8')
+        return '%s object' % self.__class__.__name__
+
     def to_mongo(self):
         """Return data dictionary ready for use with MongoDB.
         """
diff --git a/mongoengine/queryset.py b/mongoengine/queryset.py
index 2a4f5383..0ebdc67e 100644
--- a/mongoengine/queryset.py
+++ b/mongoengine/queryset.py
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ import copy
 __all__ = ['queryset_manager', 'Q', 'InvalidQueryError', 
            'InvalidCollectionError']
 
+# The maximum number of items to display in a QuerySet.__repr__
+REPR_OUTPUT_SIZE = 20
+
 
 class InvalidQueryError(Exception):
     pass
@@ -514,6 +517,11 @@ class QuerySet(object):
         """
         return self.exec_js(freq_func, list_field, normalize=normalize)
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        data = list(self[:REPR_OUTPUT_SIZE + 1])
+        if len(data) > REPR_OUTPUT_SIZE:
+            data[-1] = "...(remaining elements truncated)..."
+        return repr(data)
 
 class InvalidCollectionError(Exception):
     pass