Jane Austen Quotes - Page 19 | Just Great DataBase

…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal...

A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

She is loveliness itself.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die...

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. 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.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.