Jane Austen Quotes
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“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”
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I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
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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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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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Sense will always have attractions for me.
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I have always maintained the importance of Aunts...
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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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...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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We are all fools in love.
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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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Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
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I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
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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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The Webbs are really gone! When I saw the waggons at the door, and thought of all the trouble they must have in moving, I began to reproach myself for not having liked them better, but since the waggons have disappeared my conscience has been closed again, and I am excessively glad they are gone.
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound...
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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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We do not suffer by accident.
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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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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?