Jane Austen Quotes
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My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?
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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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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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I have read your book, and I disapprove.
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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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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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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.
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I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
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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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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
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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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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.
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One word from you shall silence me forever.
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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.
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There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
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My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
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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.
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Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!