Jane Austen Quotes
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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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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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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[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.
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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
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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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I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
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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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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart...
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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
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Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.
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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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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
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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 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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I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like...
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.
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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.