Jane Austen Quotes
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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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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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It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?
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When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.
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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
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His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
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They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.
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I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like...
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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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...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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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.
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Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.
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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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She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.