Jane Austen Quotes
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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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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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Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
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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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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.
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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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...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
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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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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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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 publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
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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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Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.
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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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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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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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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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You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.