Jane Austen Quotes
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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
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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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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again...
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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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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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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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Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.
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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 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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Too many cooks spoil the broth...
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
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Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.
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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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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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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
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There are secrets in all families.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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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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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?