Jane Austen Quotes - Page 18 | Just Great DataBase

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

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

I must have my share in the conversation…

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Everything nourishes what is strong already

...I will not allow books to prove any thing.""But how shall we prove any thing?""We never shall.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.