Jane Austen Quotes - Page 2

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

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

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.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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

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.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley