Jane Austen Quotes
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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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There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.
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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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I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.
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...a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
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…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.
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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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Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.
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It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
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If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.
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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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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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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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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
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I have read your book, and I disapprove.
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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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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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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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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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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.