Jane Austen Quotes
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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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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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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
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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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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.
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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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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present...
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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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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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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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Time, time will heal the wound.
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I am excessively diverted.
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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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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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Till this moment I never knew myself.
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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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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.
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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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A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.