Jane Austen Quotes
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I cannot anyhow continue to find people agreeable; I respect Mrs. Chamberlayne for doing her hair well, but cannot feel a more tender sentiment. Miss Langley is like any other short girl, with a broad nose and wide mouth, fashionable dress and exposed bosom. Adm. Stanhope is a gentleman-like man, but then his legs are too short and his tail too long.
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
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You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me.
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I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.
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Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
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A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
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She Mary I married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.
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It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
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I believe I drank too much wine last night at Hurstbourne; I know not how else to account for the shaking of my hand today. You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing, by attributing it to this venial error.
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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.
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Arguments are too much like disputes.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid