Quotes from Jane Austen

Man only can be aware of the insensibility of man towards a new gown.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.

La vanidad y el orgullo son cosas distintas, aunque muchas veces se usen como sinónimos. El orgullo está relacionado con la opinión que tenemos de nosotros mismos; la vanidad, con lo que quisiéramos que los demás pensaran de nosotros. –Si

convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. I have met with two instances lately, one I will not

Certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu buen carácter, tu bondad, no podrá embargarme esa dicha. No, no, déjame a mi aire; y, tal vez, si me acompaña la suerte, con el tiempo pueda encontrar a otro señor Collins.

I am glad I have done being in love with him.

She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real passion, and without having excited even any admiration but what was very moderate and very transient.

Go and eat and drink a little more, and you will do very well.

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

His sisters were anxious for his having an estate of his own; but, though he was now only established as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table—nor was Mrs. Hurst, who had married

We are told to despair of nothing we would attain, as unwearied diligence our point would gain

my dear Sir Thomas! interrupted Mrs. Norris

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night with nothing to say.

Mr. Darcy drew his chair a little towards her, and said, "You cannot have a right to such very strong local attachment. You cannot have been always at Longbourn." Elizabeth looked surprised. The gentleman experienced some change of feeling; he drew back his chair, took a newspaper from the table, and glancing over it, said, in a colder voice: "Are you pleased with Kent?

I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature

It was very well known that no affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages; and why was he to ruin himself, and their poor little Harry, by giving away all his money to his half sisters?

no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

and if he were ever animated enough to be in love, must have long outlived every sensation of the kind. It is too ridiculous! When is a man to be safe from such wit, if age and infirmity will not protect him?

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Too soon did she find herself at the drawing room door. And after pausing a moment for what she knew would not come, for a courage which the outside of no door had ever supplied to her, she turned the lock in desperation and the lights of the drawing room and all the collected family were before her.

You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.