Jane Austen Quotes
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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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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
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It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best...
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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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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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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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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.
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And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
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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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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
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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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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
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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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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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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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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 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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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.
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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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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.