Jane Austen Quotes
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There are secrets in all families.
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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.
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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
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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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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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With a book he was regardless of time.
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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
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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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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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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
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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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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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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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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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Every savage can dance.
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To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.
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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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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
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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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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.