Jane Austen Quotes
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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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I should not mind anything at all.
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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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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.
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Know your own happiness.
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Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.
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He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.
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To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.
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Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.
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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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If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.
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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
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And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
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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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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.