Top 793 Quotes & Sayings by Jane Austen - Page 3

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

Beware how you give your heart.

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

The less said the better.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

She is loveliness itself.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

Know your own happiness.

But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

Time will explain.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

Angry people are not always wise.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

I should infinitely prefer a book.

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

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.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.