Jane Austen Quotes
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You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
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Evil to some is always good to others...
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Time did not compose her.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
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Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. 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.
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Every savage can dance.
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One word from you shall silence me forever.
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What strange creatures brothers are!
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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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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
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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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Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.
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There are secrets in all families.
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
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The sooner every party breaks up the better.
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And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.
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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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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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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?