Jane Austen Quotes
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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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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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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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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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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 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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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
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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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One can never have too large a party.
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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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Is not poetry the food of love?
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Too many cooks spoil the broth...
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My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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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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The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship...
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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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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
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How can you contrive to write so even?
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My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.
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Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.