• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Jane Austen Quotes
  • Jane Austen Quotes   782
  • I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Girl Quotes , Hate Quotes
  • Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Character Quotes , Evil Quotes
  • I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-" "Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you." "And I you.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Heart Quotes , Shh Quotes
  • Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Mother Quotes , Children Quotes
  • Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Fashion Quotes
  • Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Imagination Quotes , Inspire Quotes
  • ... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Attachment Quotes , Being Real Quotes