Jane Austen Quotes
-
Too many cooks spoil the broth...
-
Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.
-
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.
-
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
-
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
-
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.
-
Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.
-
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
-
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.
-
...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
-
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
-
As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!
-
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.
-
How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!
-
I must have my share in the conversation.
-
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
-
A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
-
Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present...
-
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"
-
Each found her greatest safety in silence.
-
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.