Jane Austen Quotes
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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!
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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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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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I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.
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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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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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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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Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing...
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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
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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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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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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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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
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I can always live by my pen.
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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
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Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.
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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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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.