Jane Austen Quotes
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Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
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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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Evil to some is always good to others...
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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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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.
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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
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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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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?
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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
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I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.
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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.
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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
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Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.
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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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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
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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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Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.
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No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.