Jane Austen Quotes
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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
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With a book he was regardless of time.
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I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
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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.
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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
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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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He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.
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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.
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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!
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Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .
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...she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.
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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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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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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.
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Evil to some is always good to others...
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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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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.