Jane Austen Quotes - Page 3

Angry people are not always wise.

…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…

…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

But to appear happy when I am so miserable - Oh! who can require it?

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.

I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.