Jane Austen Quotes
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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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Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
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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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Too many cooks spoil the broth...
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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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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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
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Angry people are not always wise.
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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best...
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.
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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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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 are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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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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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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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
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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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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
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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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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.
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How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!