Jane Austen
It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.Collection: Opportunity
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.Collection: Impossible
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?Collection: Heart
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.Collection: Ignorance
We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.Collection: Fate
... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.Collection: May
Faultless in spite of all her faults.Collection: Faults
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.Collection: Mean
She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.Collection: Desire
I will only add, God bless you.Collection: Add
Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.Collection: Attention
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.Collection: Prejudice
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.Collection: Wise
I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.Collection: Girl
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.Collection: Clever
I should not mind anything at all.Collection: Mind
I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.Collection: Sacrifice
With a book he was regardless of time.Collection: Book
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.Collection: Night
Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.Collection: Giving
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.Collection: Religious
A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.Collection: Mother
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.Collection: Mrs Bennet
It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.Collection: Pride
He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.Collection: Daughter
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.Collection: Love
An annuity is a very serious business.Collection: Serious Business
My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.Collection: Character
Arguments are too much like disputes.Collection: Too Much
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.Collection: Strength
It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.Collection: Action
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book.Collection: About Books And Reading
Our scars make us know that our past was for real.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Loneliness
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.Collection: Reading
I should infinitely prefer a book...Collection: Book
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet.Collection: Firsts
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride – where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.Collection: Real
Everything nourishes what is strong already.Collection: Strong
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I’ve done nothing useful with my life.Collection: Book
To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind.Collection: Real