Jane Austen Quotes
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Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.
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I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?
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I have always maintained the importance of Aunts...
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It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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One word from you shall silence me forever.
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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...a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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Is not poetry the food of love?
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I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
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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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[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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General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
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There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.
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Sense will always have attractions for me.