Jane Austen Quotes
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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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There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.
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His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
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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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An annuity is a very serious business.
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'I am afraid', replied Elinor, 'that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'
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But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
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The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.
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Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.
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I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.
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I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.
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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
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I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.
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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.
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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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My head-dress was a bugle-band like the border to my gown, and a flower of Mrs Tilson’s. I depended upon hearing something of the evening from Mr. W. K., and am very well satisfied with his notice of me - 'A pleasing looking young woman' - that must do; one cannot pretend to anything better now; thankful to have it continued a few years longer!
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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
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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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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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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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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
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It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world