Jane Austen Quotes
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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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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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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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The sooner every party breaks up the better.
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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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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
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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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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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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!
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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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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again...
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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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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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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He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.
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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
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...a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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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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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
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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.