Jane Austen Quotes
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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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We do not suffer by accident.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
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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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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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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
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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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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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She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.
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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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She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.
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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.
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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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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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We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.
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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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I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.
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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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Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.
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I am not romantic, you know; I never was.
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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!