Jane Austen Quotes
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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world
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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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What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real...
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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart...
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There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.
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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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The Webbs are really gone! When I saw the waggons at the door, and thought of all the trouble they must have in moving, I began to reproach myself for not having liked them better, but since the waggons have disappeared my conscience has been closed again, and I am excessively glad they are gone.
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I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it.
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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
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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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“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”
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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some...
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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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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
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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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We are all fools in love.
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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.
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It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
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I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.