Jane Austen Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Obstinate, headstrong girl!
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.
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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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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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I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
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But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.
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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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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.
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'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.' Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'
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Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.
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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
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It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.
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My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.