Jane Austen Quotes
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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
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I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
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I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.
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We do not suffer by accident.
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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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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
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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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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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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
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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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Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
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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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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.
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She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.
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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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Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.
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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
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A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.