Jane Austen Quotes
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Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.
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I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.
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If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
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There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley
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We have been exceedingly busy ever since you went away. In the first place we have had to rejoice two or three times everyday at your having such very delightful weather for the whole of your journey...
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
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I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
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Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground-I screamed and instantly ran mad! We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an hour and a quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
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Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice, natural, open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility which one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame.
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The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.
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Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.
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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world
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Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
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I want nothing but death.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.