Jane Austen Quotes
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Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.
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I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real...
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.
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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
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Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.
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I have always maintained the importance of Aunts...
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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
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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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I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.
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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
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My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Mr. Digweed has used us basely. Handsome is as handsome does; he is therefore a very ill-looking man.
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I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
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He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
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The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.
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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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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some...
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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.