Jane Austen Quotes
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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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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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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
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One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.
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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
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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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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
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There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.
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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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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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Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.
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Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
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...one day in the country is exactly like another.
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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
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Too many cooks spoil the broth...
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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
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Time did not compose her.
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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
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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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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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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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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.