Jane Austen Quotes
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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I must have my share in the conversation.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
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And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.
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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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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
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How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!
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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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I will only add, God bless you.
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The less said the better.
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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.
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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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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
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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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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.
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If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.
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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.
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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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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.
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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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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.