Jane Austen Quotes
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
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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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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
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I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
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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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Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.
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Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.
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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
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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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By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon, for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
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His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.
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There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
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His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
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Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.
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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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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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An annuity is a very serious business.
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Success supposes endeavour.