Jane Austen Quotes
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Know your own happiness.
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She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
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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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The less said the better.
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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.
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I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
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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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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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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.
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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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I should not mind anything at all.
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Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.
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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.
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All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
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I will only add, God bless you.
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She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation...