Jane Austen Quotes
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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
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Each found her greatest safety in silence.
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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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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
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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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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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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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Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
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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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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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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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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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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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Time, time will heal the wound.
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I am excessively diverted.
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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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If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.
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Know your own happiness.
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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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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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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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I should not mind anything at all.