Quotes by Jane Austen

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

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”

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

“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?”

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

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

“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.”

“Without music, life would be a blank to me.”

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

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feeli...”

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

“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.”

“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her o...”

“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”

“She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called. The respect created by the ...”

“She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjest resentment, though perfectly careless of her...”

“Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, Im in love with a man and I cant have him. But that would only lead to questions she couldnt answer, so s...”

“They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling t...”