Jane Austen Quotes
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I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
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Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.
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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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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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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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It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.
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If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.
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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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What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
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She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.
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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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Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.
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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.
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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
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if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
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Sense will always have attractions for me.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.
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She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.
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I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.
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…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.