Jane Austen Quotes
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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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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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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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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.
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Evil to some is always good to others...
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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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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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Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
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How can I dispose of myself with it?
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My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.
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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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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.
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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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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
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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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If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.
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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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Time did not compose her.
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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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I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.