All Quotes by Jane Austen
“However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
“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.”
“But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.”
“Tempo ou oportunidade não determinam a intimidade, apenas a disposição.”
“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
“she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.”
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
“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.”
“Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”
“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
“I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.”
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”
“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.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”
“Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.”
“And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”
“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.”
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
“Time did not compose her.”
“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.”
“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
“General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
“Time will explain.”
“Nobody minds having what is too good for them.”
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…”