Jane Austen Quotes
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I can always live by my pen.
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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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He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.
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I have read your book, and I disapprove.
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He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.
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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
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I am not romantic, you know; I never was.
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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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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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The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart...
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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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Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled.
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...a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.
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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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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again...
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.