“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”
— Jane Austen
“I was quiet but I was not blind.”
“It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book.”
“We are all fools in love.”
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
“Angry people are not always wise.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.”
“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”
“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
“Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.”
“It’s such a happiness when good people get together.”
“The less said the better.”
“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
“Our scars make us know that our past was for real.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“Obstinate, headstrong girl!”
“Time will explain.”
“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.”
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
“I want nothing but death.”
“When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.”
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
“I will only add, God bless you.”
“Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.”
“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
“Almost anything is possible with time.”
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
“I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”
“I walk: I prefer walking.”
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
“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.”
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
“Too many cooks spoil the broth.”
“Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.”
“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.”
“My heart is, and always will be, yours.”
“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.”
“Success supposes endeavour.”
“If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.”
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
“Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.”
“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.”
“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
“Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.”
“With a book he was regardless of time.”
“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.”
“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy.”
“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”
“Every savage can dance.”
“And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.”
“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.”
“A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.”
“I am not romantic, you know; I never was.”
“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
“There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.”
“She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.”
“Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.”
“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.”
“I do not cough for my own amusement.”
“I have no talent for certainty.”
“Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.”
“Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.”
“Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.”
“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it’s fragrance on the desert air.”
“Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”
“Nobody minds having what is too good for them.”
“Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.”
“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”
“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.”
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”
“Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.”
“Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.”
“From politics it was an easy step to silence.”
“There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.”
“How much I love every thing that is decided and open!”
“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.”
“My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.”
“She attracted him more than he liked.”
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