Jane Austen Quotes - Page 39 | Just Great DataBase

I have observed, Mrs Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

That will just do for me, you know. I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth, shan't I?

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certain silly things cease to be silly if done by sensible people in an imprudent way.

Even pleasure, you know, is fatiguing…

What is passable in youth is detestable in later age

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;—perfect, in being much too short.

I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line.

Her mind was less difficult to develop.

Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain.

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.

Oh hang kitty; what has she to do with it? Come, be quick. Be quick. Where is your sash?

-La imaginación de las mujeres hace que concibamos demasiadas ilusiones respecto de los hombres.-Y los hombres procuran que así sea

I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.

Come Darcy,' said he. 'I must have you dance. I hate to see you standing around by yourself in this stupid manner.

A man who had felt less, might.

You do not make allowance enough for difference of situation and temper.

it is often nothing but our own vanity that decieves us

If you will thank me," he replied, "let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you."Elizabeth was too much embarrassed to say a word. After a short pause, her companion added, "You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever."Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances.The happiness which this reply produced was such as he had probably never felt before, and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.