Jane Austen Quotes
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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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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
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Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.
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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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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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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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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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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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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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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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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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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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How can I dispose of myself with it?
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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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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 . . . 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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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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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.