Jane Austen Quotes
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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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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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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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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
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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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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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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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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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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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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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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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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.
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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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...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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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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The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart...
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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.
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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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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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.