Jane Austen Quotes
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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.
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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
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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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A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
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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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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present...
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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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Time, time will heal the wound.
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Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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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 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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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.
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Till this moment I never knew myself.
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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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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.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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I am excessively diverted.
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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.