Jane Austen Quotes
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
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I am not romantic, you know; I never was.
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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
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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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When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.
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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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...why did we wait for any thing? - why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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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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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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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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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.
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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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Is not poetry the food of love?
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
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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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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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I have always maintained the importance of Aunts...
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You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.
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I wish I could finish stories as fast as you can. I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, and think you have done for her very well; but the good-for-nothing father, who was the real author of all her faults and sufferings, should not escape unpunished. I hope he hung himself, or took the surname of Bone or underwent some direful penance or other.
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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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“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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You have delighted us long enough.
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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.