Jane Austen Quotes

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

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

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

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

"You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

"I shall soon be rested," said Fanny; "to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment."

Time will explain.

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

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

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.

I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do what is right.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.