Jane Austen Quotes
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Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.
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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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I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
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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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Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.
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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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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.
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Success supposes endeavour.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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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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Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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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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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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But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
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Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.
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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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Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
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It was in this reign that Joan of Arc reigned and made such a row among the English.
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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.