Jane Austen Quotes
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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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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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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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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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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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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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I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
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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.
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It is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.
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How can I dispose of myself with it?
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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
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Time did not compose her.
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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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I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.
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You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!