Jane Austen Quotes
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Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.
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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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There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.
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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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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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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 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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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
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If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
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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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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 can always live by my pen.
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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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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
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If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.
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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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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
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...there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
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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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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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He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.
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Almost anything is possible with time...
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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.