Jane Austen Quotes - Page 41 | Just Great DataBase

Let those who want to be happy ... be firm

its healing powers, on a disappointed heart

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk

Colonel Brandon was now as happy, as all those who best loved him, believed he deserved to be;—in Marianne he was consoled for every past affliction;—her regard and her society restored his mind to animation, and his spirits to cheerfulness; and that Marianne found her own happiness in forming his, was equally the persuasion and delight of each observing friend. Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face the next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it. But the feelings which made such composure a disgrace, left her in no danger of incurring it. She was awake the whole night, and she wept the greatest part of it. She got up with an head-ache, was unable to talk, and unwilling to take any nourishment; giving pain every moment to her mother and sisters, and forbidding all attempt at consolation from either. Her sensibility was potent enough!

Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

The whole story would have been speedily formed under her active imagination; and every thing established in the most melancholy order of disastrous love

There could have been no two heartsSo open, no tastes so similar, no feelingsSo in unison, no countenancesSo beloved. Now they were strangers;Nay, worse than strangers, for theyCould never become acquainted.It was a perpetual estrangement.

I do not dislike him. I consider him, on the contrary, as a very respectable man, who has everybody's good word and nobody's notice…

They went to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was bringing in all the grandeur which so flat a shore admitted. They praised the morning; gloried in the sea; sympathized in the delight of the fresh-feeling breeze- and were silent...

I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord! There is not getting away from one's self

Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.

But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?""Yes, I am fond of history.""I wish I were too. I read it 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.

Reluctantly, and with much hesitation, did she then begin what might perhaps, at the end of half an hour, be termed, by the courtesy of her hearers, an explanation;

…—We have not all, you know, the same tenderness of disposition…

She began to curl her hair and long for balls

You feel, as you always do, what is most to the credit of human nature.  —Such feelings ought to be investigated, that they may know themselves.

What a revolution in her ideas!