Jane Austen Quotes
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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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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
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How can you contrive to write so even?
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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
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Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .
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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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Evil to some is always good to others...
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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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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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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The sooner every party breaks up the better.
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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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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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To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.
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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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Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
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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.