Jane Austen Quotes
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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.
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I have always maintained the importance of Aunts...
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It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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Sense will always have attractions for me.
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.
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The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.
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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
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Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
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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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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
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I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.
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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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To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound...
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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.