Jane Austen Quotes
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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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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
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With a book he was regardless of time.
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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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Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.
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Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
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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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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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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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Time, time will heal the wound.
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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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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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Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
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And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.
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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.
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Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
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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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I must have my share in the conversation.