Jane Austen Quotes
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.
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The sooner every party breaks up the better.
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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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What strange creatures brothers are!
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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.
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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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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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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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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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My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
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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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A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
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I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?
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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
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Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.
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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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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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There are secrets in all families.
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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.
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Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. 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.