Jane Austen, Emma Quotes
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind.
I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment
It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.
Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.
Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?
Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.
What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.
But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.
I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all.
With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.