Jane Austen Quotes
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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
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Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.
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Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.
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He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him - goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening.
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She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real...
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
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You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.
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Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to ascertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.
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My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
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We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
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Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.
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I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it.
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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.