Quotes from Jane Austen

And Elinor, in quitting Norland and Edward, cried not as I did. Even now her self-command is invariable. When is she dejected or melancholy? When does she try to avoid society, or appear restless and dissatisfied in it?

She had never been supplanted. He never even believed himself to see her equal. Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge: that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.

Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.

In vain I have 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.

My dear madam, I am not so ignorant of young ladies' ways as you wish to believe me; it is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. Nature may have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both. Oh! mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's!

it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading...

I should hardly call her a lively girl—she is very earnest, very eager in all she does—sometimes talks a great deal and always with animation—but she is not often really merry.

he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair cut...there was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve

But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.

Admiral Croft's manners were not quite of the tone to suit Lady Russell, but they delighted Anne. His goodness of heart and simplicity of character were irresistible.

Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle;

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Ansiaba su estima cuando ya no podía esperar obtenerla; necesitaba oirlo cuando no parecía existir la menor probabilidad de avenencia; estaba convencida de que habría sido dichosa a su lado, cuando no era probable que se produjera un nuevo encuentro entre ambos.

A good looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others

The sooner every party breaks up, the better.

It is very unfair to judge of any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Sólo estoy dispuesta a proceder de la manera que considere más apropiada para mi felicidad, sin tener en cuenta lo que piense usted ni ningún otro.

Her heart was made for love and kindness, not for resentment.

It raises my spleen more than anything.