Jane Austen Quotes
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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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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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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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We do not suffer by accident.
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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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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.
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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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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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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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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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I have read your book, and I disapprove.
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The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
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Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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We are all fools in love.
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Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
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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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Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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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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Our scars make us know that our past was for real...
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.