Jane Austen Quotes
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On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.
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Beware how you give your heart.
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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.
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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison...
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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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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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I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!
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Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.
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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
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...she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.
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But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree, as you do; who have not, at least, been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.
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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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What could I do! Facts are such horrid things!
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I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
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Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.
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Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
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She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.