Jane Austen Quotes
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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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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
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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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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
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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 do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
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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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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
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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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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
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I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like...
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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?
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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
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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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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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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
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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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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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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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I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
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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.