Jane Austen Quotes
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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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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You have delighted us long enough.
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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?
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If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.
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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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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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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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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
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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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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
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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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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
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Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.
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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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I am not romantic, you know; I never was.
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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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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.
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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
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But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.