Jane Austen Quotes
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It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.
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It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
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Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
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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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Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.
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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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But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.
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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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What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.
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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.
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'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.' Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.
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His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.
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Sense will always have attractions for me.
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They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.
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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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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
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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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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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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.