Jane Austen Quotes
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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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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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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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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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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 am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
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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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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.
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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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Time will explain.
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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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Arguments are too much like disputes.
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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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He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.
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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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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
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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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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.
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She attracted him more than he liked.
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Obstinate, headstrong girl!
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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.'