Jane Austen Quotes
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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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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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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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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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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!
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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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 do not suffer by accident.
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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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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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I have read your book, and I disapprove.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart...
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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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She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.
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Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.
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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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He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.
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A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
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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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Our scars make us know that our past was for real...
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... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.