Jane Austen Quotes
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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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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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I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.
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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
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It is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.
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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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One can never have too large a party.
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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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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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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
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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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...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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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 am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like...
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Too many cooks spoil the broth...
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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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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
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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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One word from you shall silence me forever.
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He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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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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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.