Jane Austen Quotes
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
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I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.
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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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It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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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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Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
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Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.
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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.
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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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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
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I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.
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Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.
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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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She attracted him more than he liked.
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He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.
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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.
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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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'I shall soon be rested,' said Fanny; 'to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.'
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The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.
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No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.
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Arguments are too much like disputes.