Jane Austen Quotes
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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
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It is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.
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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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How can I dispose of myself with it?
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Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.
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...she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.
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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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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
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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.
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When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.
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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.
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I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind...
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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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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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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions...
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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.