Jane austen quotes

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Know your own happiness.

Beware how you give your heart.

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. 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.

Every savage can dance.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

There are secrets in all families.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

Almost anything is possible with time

one day in the country is exactly like another.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

Angry people are not always wise.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

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

Time will explain.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

I am all astonishment.

Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

The less said the better.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

Time did not compose her.

I should infinitely prefer a book.

Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

I must have my share in the conversation.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

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

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

I am excessively diverted.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

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.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

Success supposes endeavour.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.