Jane Austen Quotes
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I can always live by my pen.
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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.
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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
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They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.
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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?
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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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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
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When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.
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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.
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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.
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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
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You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
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When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.
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I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?
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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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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.
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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
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[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.