JANE AUSTEN QUOTES III
English novelist (1775-1817)
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
JANE AUSTEN
Northanger Abbey
One cannot have too large a party.
JANE AUSTEN
Emma
Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
What are men to rocks and mountains?
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
JANE AUSTEN
Northanger Abbey
There was a monstrous deal of stupid quizzing and common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.
JANE AUSTEN
letter to Cassandra, April 21, 1805
If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
JANE AUSTEN
Sense and Sensibility
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!
JANE AUSTEN
Love and Friendship
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.
JANE AUSTEN
Mansfield Park
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
James Digweed left Hampshire today. I think he must be in love with you, from his anxiety to have you go to the Faversham Balls & likewise from his supposing that the two Elms fell from their grief at your absence. Was it not a galant idea? It never occurred to me before, but I dare say it was so.
JANE AUSTEN
letter to Cassandra Austen, Nov. 21, 1800
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.
JANE AUSTEN
letter to Fanny Knight, Nov. 18, 1814
I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant, and spending all my money, and, what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.
JANE AUSTEN
letter to Cassandra Austen, Apr. 18, 1811
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
JANE AUSTEN
Northanger Abbey
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
JANE AUSTEN
Mansfield Park
He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.
JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN
Northanger Abbey
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
JANE AUSTEN
Emma