Jane Austen Quotes
I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.
We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.
Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.
I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.
You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.
Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.
I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.
I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.
There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?
Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.
It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
