Jane Austen Quotes
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I trust that absolutes have gradations.
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I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
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I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.
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She Mary I married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.
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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
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You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.
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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
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A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out."
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None but a woman can teach the science of herself.
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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!
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I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
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...the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
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Mrs. B. and two young women were of the same party, except when Mrs. B. thought herself obliged to leave them to run round the room after her drunken husband. His avoidance, and her pursuit, with the probable intoxication of both, was an amusing scene.
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I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.
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You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.
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But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]
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A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
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But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.
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I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant, and spending all my money, and, what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.
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I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.