Jane Austen Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."
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We do not suffer by accident.
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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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When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.
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You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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She was stronger alone.
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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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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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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
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Sense will always have attractions for me.
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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound...
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It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
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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.
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What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.