Jane Austen Quotes
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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 can always live by my pen.
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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
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What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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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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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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Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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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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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
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Let us have the luxury of silence.
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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
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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 began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.
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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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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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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
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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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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 do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
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If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.