Jane Austen Quotes
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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.
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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
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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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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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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
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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]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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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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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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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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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
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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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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
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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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He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.
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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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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
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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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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
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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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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.