Jane Austen Quotes
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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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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?
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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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Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.
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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 will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive.
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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 do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
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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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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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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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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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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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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
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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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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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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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No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.
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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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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.
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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.