Jane Austen Quotes
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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best...
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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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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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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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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
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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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Evil to some is always good to others...
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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Time, time will heal the wound.
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How can I dispose of myself with it?
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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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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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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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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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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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You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.
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You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an instant And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"
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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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With a book he was regardless of time.
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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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...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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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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What strange creatures brothers are!