Jane Austen Quotes
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How can I dispose of myself with it?
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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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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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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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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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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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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Time, time will heal the wound.
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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best...
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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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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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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 report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.
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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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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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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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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
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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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What strange creatures brothers are!
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If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.
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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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You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.
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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.