Jane Austen Quotes
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How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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Till this moment I never knew myself.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present...
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She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.
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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.
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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
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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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Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.
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Time, time will heal the wound.
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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
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The less said the better.
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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.
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I am excessively diverted.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.