Jane Austen Quotes
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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One word from you shall silence me forever.
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If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.
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When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.
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I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
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I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like...
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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
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To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.
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He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.
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Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."
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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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I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.
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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind...
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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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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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if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.
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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
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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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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
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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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But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.
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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?