Jane Austen Quotes
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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Every savage can dance.
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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
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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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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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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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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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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 more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
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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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Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.
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That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.
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Time did not compose her.
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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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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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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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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
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How can I dispose of myself with it?
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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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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.