Jane Austen Quotes

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.

I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.

... a whole day’s tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

…for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

With a book he was regardless of time...

There is no other enjoyment like reading

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

We are all fools in love

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

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.

Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all.

...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish.

There are secrets in all families, you know.

So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other creature in the world.

Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

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.

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.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in theirpower, which no subsequent connections can supply..

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

She was stronger alone…

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

There are people who, the more you do for them, the less they will do for themseselves.

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony...

If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it may be the means—it may put me on my guard—at least, it may be something to live for.

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

A loss may be sometimes a gain.

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?

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Mr. ***** is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends -- whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature

They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.

A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I considered giving him yours just to spite you.

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

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.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.