Jane Austen Quotes
It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy
Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.
That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.
But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.
Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.
Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.
No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.