Quotes from Jane Austen

Then, my dear, you may have the advantage of your friend, and introduce Mr. Bingley to her.

I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line.

there are very few of us who have heart enough to be in love without encouragement.

You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying a bon mot, for there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter-of-fact, plain-spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

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.

Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?

and their marriage, instead of depriving her of one friend, secured her two.

As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality... and as she threw a retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those feelings which would now have promoted its continuance, and would formerly have rejoiced in its termination.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means As are within my reach. You pierce my soul.

The little Durands were there, I conclude, said she, with their mouths open to catch the music; like unfledged sparrows ready to be fed. They never miss a concert.

Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it. It was then disclosed in the following manner. Observing his second daughter employed in trimming a hat, he suddenly addressed her with:

I never wish to be parted from you from this day on

There will be nothing singular in his case; and it is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

Shvatila je što je ljubav kad je postala starija - prirodni slijed neprirodnog po?etka.

You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on

With all dear Emma's little faults, she is an excellent creature. Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? No, no; she has qualities which may be trusted; she will never lead any one really wrong; she will make no lasting blunder; where Emma errs once, she is in the right a hundred times.

She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected. She was in dancing, singing, exclaiming spirits; and till she had moved about, and talked to herself, and laughed and reflected, she could be fit for nothing rational.

This must be a most inconvenient sitting room for the evening, in summer; the windows are full west.

she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook…

You have another long walk before you.

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

Oh! I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other.