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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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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Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
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I have read your book, and I disapprove.
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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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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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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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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
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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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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.
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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 frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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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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I am not romantic, you know; I never was.
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...a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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 worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart...
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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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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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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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?