Jane Austen Quotes
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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
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You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.
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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
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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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How can I dispose of myself with it?
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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
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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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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.
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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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They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
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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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Angry people are not always wise.
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions...
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Time did not compose her.
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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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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!
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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
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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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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.