Jane Austen Quotes
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions...
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.
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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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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
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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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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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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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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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Time did not compose her.
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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
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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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How can you contrive to write so even?
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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
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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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...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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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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Is not poetry the food of love?
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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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Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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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.