Jane Austen Quotes
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I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.
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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing...
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I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.
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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
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She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.
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Almost anything is possible with time...
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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
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Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.
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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
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I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.
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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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You have delighted us long enough.
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She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.
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She was stronger alone.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
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You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
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To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.
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...but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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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.