Jane Austen Quotes
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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.
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I will only add, God bless you.
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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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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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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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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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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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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
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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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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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Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
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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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The less said the better.
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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 then I am unlike other people I dare say.
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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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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
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She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation...
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I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more...
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She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.