Jane Austen Quotes - Page 10 | Just Great DataBase

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

to hope was to expect

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

I walk: I prefer walking.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.