Jane Austen Quotes
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With a book he was regardless of time.
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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
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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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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.
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Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .
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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
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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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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.
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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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Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.
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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.
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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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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
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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.