Jane Austen Quotes

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong.

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.

Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. 'How could you begin?' said she. begun.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

Biti dobro upućen u stvari znači lišiti druge mogućnosti da udovolje svojoj taštini, što će pametan čovek uvek nastojati da izbegne.

Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”~ Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)

I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

I will not talk of my own happiness, ' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"- Elizabeth Bennet

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.

Te aseguro que no soy de las que quieren a medias. Mis sentimientos siempre son profundos y arraigados"...

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book, ' I said. He didn't hit me.

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Some of the most thrilling things in life are done on impulse.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.