Jane Austen Quotes

It was in this reign that Joan of Arc reigned and made such a row among the English.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

The pride of any mother is to give birth to a responsible and successful child.

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.

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

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

From the very beginning — from the first moment, I may almost say — of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Mrs. B. and two young women were of the same party, except when Mrs. B. thought herself obliged to leave them to run round the room after her drunken husband. His avoidance, and her pursuit, with the probable intoxication of both, was an amusing scene.

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.