Jane Austen Quotes
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It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.
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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.
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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
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I trust that absolutes have gradations.
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None but a woman can teach the science of herself.
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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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Obstinate, headstrong girl!
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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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She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing...
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Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
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I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
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She would tell you herself that she has a very dreadful cold in her head at present; but I have not much compassion for colds in the head without fever or sore throat.
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Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.
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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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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
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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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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
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Mr. Digweed has used us basely. Handsome is as handsome does; he is therefore a very ill-looking man.
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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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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.