Jane Austen Quotes - Page 9

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

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."

"You are mistaken," said he gently, "that is not good company; that is the best. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners (...)

You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body 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.

Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

...for to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their
power, which no subsequent connections can supply..

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body was astonished at the opinion of the others.

A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! The proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.

It's a truth universally acknowledged...

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?