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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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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I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.
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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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He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.
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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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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
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One word from you shall silence me forever.
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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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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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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again...
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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 not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
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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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How can you contrive to write so even?
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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
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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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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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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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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.