Jane Austen Quotes
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I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
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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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I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like...
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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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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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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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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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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?
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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
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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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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.
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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 do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
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[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
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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.