Jane Austen Quotes, Book Quotes

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Book Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Laughing Quotes , World Quotes

There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Kindness Quotes

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Believe Quotes

There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Prejudice Quotes

Almost anything is possible with time

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Inspiration Quotes

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Sports Quotes , Neighbor Quotes

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Love Is Quotes

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Teacher Quotes , School Quotes

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Rooms Quotes , Speak Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Heart Quotes , Expectations Quotes

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Training Quotes , Fifteen Quotes

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Praise Quotes , Neglect Quotes

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Maturity Quotes , Self Quotes

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Style Quotes

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Mother Quotes , Wife Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Girl Quotes