Jane Austen Quotes
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A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
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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 have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
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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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Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.
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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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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.
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I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.
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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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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.
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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best...
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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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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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What strange creatures brothers are!
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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
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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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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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Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.