Jane Austen Quotes
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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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I wish I could finish stories as fast as you can. I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, and think you have done for her very well; but the good-for-nothing father, who was the real author of all her faults and sufferings, should not escape unpunished. I hope he hung himself, or took the surname of Bone or underwent some direful penance or other.
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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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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
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Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
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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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When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.
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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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Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.
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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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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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Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.
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But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.
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If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
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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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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
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You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
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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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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.