Jane Austen Quotes
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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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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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I should not mind anything at all.
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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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If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
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Till this moment I never knew myself.
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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 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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I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
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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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She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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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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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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The less said the better.
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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.
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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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I will only add, God bless you.