Jane Austen Quotes

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

"Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.

"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They
are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration
these last twenty years at least.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

I dearly love a laugh... I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

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

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

I love you. Most ardently.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.