Jane Austen Quotes
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...but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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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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They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.
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I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
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Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.
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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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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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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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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.
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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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Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.
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The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.
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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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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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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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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
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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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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.
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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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Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.