Jane Austen Quotes
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It is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.
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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
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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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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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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
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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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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
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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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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
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Is not poetry the food of love?
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What strange creatures brothers are!
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.
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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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I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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I was quiet but I was not blind.
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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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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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It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.
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How can you contrive to write so even?