Jane Austen Quotes
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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
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Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.
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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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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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I am excessively diverted.
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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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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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I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
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I should not mind anything at all.
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A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
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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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Know your own happiness.
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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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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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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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She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation...
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Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.