Jane Austen Quotes
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I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
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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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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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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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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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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
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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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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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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!
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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions...
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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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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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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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[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
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But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.
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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
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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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If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.
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Too many cooks spoil the broth...