Jane Austen Quotes
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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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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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One word from you shall silence me forever.
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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.
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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
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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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How can I dispose of myself with it?
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Angry people are not always wise.
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Time did not compose her.
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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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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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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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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
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My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.
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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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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.
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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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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
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My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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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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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.