Jane Austen Quotes
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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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Every savage can dance.
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Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.
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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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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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How can you contrive to write so even?
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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
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There are secrets in all families.
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Evil to some is always good to others...
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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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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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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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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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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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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
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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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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
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Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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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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There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.
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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.