Jane Austen Quotes
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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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I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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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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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
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He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.
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Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.
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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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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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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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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
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...a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like...
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...there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
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One can never have too large a party.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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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.