Jane Austen Quotes
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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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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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.
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Is not poetry the food of love?
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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Time did not compose her.
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
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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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Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.
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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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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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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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How can you contrive to write so even?
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.
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Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. 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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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
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This is an evening of wonders, indeed!
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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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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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I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.