Jane Austen Quotes
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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
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...a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.
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Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.
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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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The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship...
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Angry people are not always wise.
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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind...
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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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.
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She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.
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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?
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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. 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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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.