Jane Austen Quotes
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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real...
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Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.
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Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.
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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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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.
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His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.
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Your abuse of our gowns amuses but does not discourage me; I shall take mine to be made up next week, and the more I look at it the better it pleases me. My cloak came on Tuesday, and, though I expected a good deal, the beauty of the lace astonished me. It is too handsome to be worn - almost too handsome to be looked at.
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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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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He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.
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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world
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The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.
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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
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...why did we wait for any thing? - why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.