Jane Austen Quotes
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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
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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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Every savage can dance.
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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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Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
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No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.
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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.
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Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
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Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.
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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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A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
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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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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.
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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best...
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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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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.
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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.
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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
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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...