Jane Austen Quotes

"What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, your meditations are not satisfactory."

Catherine coloured, and said, "I was not thinking of anything."

That is artful and deep, to be sure; but I had rather be told at once that you will not tell me."

Well then, I will not."

Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet, and nothing in the world advances intimacy so much.

Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.

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.

"Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

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

I give you joy of having left Winchester. Now you may own how miserable you were there; now it will gradually all come out, your crimes and your miseries — how often you went up by the Mail to London and threw away fifty guineas at a tavern, and how often you were on the point of hanging yourself, restrained only, as some ill-natured aspersion upon poor old Winton has it, by the want of a tree within some miles of the city.

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

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

Devereux Forester's being ruined by his vanity is extremely good, but I wish you would not let him plunge into a "vortex of dissipation." I do not object to the thing, but I cannot bear the expression; it is such thorough novel slang, and so old that I daresay Adam met with it in the first novel he opened.

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

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself