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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Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.
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She was stronger alone.
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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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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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
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The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.
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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 always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
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With a book he was regardless of time.
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…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.
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Almost anything is possible with time...
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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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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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if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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I should infinitely prefer a book.
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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.