Jane Austen Quotes
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Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again...
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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best...
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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
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With a book he was regardless of time.
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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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How can I dispose of myself with it?
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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
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Evil to some is always good to others...
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .
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They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
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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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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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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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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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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.