Jane Austen Quotes
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
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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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Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
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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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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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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
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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 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 have read your book, and I disapprove.
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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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Almost anything is possible with time...
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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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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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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If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.
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He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.
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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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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
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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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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again...
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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
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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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I can always live by my pen.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!