Jane Austen Quotes
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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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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.
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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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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
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I can always live by my pen.
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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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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.
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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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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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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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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 will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.
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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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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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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
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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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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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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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Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
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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.