Jane Austen Quotes
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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
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Almost anything is possible with time...
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
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Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.
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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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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
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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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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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His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.
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You have delighted us long enough.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
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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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... 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.
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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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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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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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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
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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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Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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I have always maintained the importance of Aunts...