Quotes from Jane Austen

my idea of good company.. is the company of clever, well-informed people. who have a great deal of conversation.

She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her.

At Christmas every body invites their friends and thinks little of even the worst weather.

Well, well, said he, do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.

Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them.

No, no it is not man's nature. I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant and forget those they do love, or have loved. I believe the reverse. I believe in a true analogy between our bodily frames and our mental; and that as our bodies are the strongest, so are our feelings; capable of bearing most rough usage, and riding out the heaviest weather.

The colour which had been driven from her face, returned for half a minute with an additional glow, and a smile of delight added lustre to her eyes, as she thought for that space of time that his affection and wishes must still be unshaken. But she would not be secure.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to expressed them.

But do not be cast down. Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret

So Lizzy,' said he one day, 'your sister is crossed in love I find. I congratulate her. Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions.

Men never know when things are dirty or not; women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.

He would look for her- he would find her out long before the evening were over- and at present, perhaps, it was as to be asunder. She was in need of a little interval for recollection.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!

Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

You go to Brighton! -- I would not trust you so near it as East-Bourne, for fifty pounds! No, Kitty, I have at last learnt to be cautious, and you will feel the effects of it. No officer is ever to enter my house again, nor even to pass through the village. Balls will be absolutely prohibited, unless you stand up with one of your sisters. And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading and sedentary pursuits.

Most ardently

Do come now, said he..., pray come, you must come, I declare you shall come.

It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been.

He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

Well, said Anne, 'I certainly am proud, too proud to enjoy a welcome which depends so entirely upon place.