Quotes from Jane Austen, Emma

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

The I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed.

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

Time did not compose her.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.

The post-office has a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.