Jane Austen Quotes
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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
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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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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.
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You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.
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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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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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You have delighted us long enough.
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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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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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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
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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.
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Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.
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Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
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If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.
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Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
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I can always live by my pen.
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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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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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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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He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.
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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.