Jane Austen Quotes
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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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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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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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Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.
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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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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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…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.
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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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...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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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
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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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Every savage can dance.
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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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A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.
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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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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!
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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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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 cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
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I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
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The sooner every party breaks up the better.
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.