Jane Austen Quotes
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Time did not compose her.
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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
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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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What strange creatures brothers are!
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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
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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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...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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Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
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How can you contrive to write so even?
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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
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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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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?
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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
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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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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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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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Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
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The sooner every party breaks up the better.
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[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.
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I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.
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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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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.
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There are secrets in all families.