Jane Austen Quotes
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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
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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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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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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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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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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
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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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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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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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The sooner every party breaks up the better.
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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
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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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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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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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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
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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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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present...
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.