Jane Austen Quotes
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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!
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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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Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
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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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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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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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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions...
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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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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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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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But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
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How can you contrive to write so even?
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There are secrets in all families.
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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 hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
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Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.