Jane Austen Quotes
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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 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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Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
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I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.
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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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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
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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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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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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 was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.
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Know your own happiness.
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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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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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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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All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
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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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To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
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Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.