Jane Austen Quotes
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The less said the better.
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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 must have my share in the conversation.
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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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Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
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Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
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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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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
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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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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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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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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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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.
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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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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 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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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.
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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.
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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
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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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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
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How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!
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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.