Jane Austen Quotes
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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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I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.
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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
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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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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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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
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I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like...
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
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You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.
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Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
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I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.
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You have delighted us long enough.
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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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I am not romantic, you know; I never was.
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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.
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The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart...
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Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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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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A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
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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.