Jane Austen Quotes
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
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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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Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
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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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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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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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I want nothing but death.
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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
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She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.
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...but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
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I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.
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I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.
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And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.
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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
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Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
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It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
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It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.
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I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.