Quotes from Jane Austen

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

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.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

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

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

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.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Grant us grace Almighty Father so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

Every savage can dance.

There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.