Jane Austen Quotes
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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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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
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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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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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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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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again...
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Too many cooks spoil the broth...
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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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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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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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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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
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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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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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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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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
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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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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?
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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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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.