Jane Austen Quotes
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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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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
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One can never have too large a party.
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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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 sooner every party breaks up the better.
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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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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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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
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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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I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.
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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
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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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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!