Jane Austen
The distance is nothing when one has a motive.Collection: Distance
But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.Collection: Tea
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.Collection: Inspiring
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.Collection: Pain
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.Collection: Judging
Time will explain.Collection: Time
Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.Collection: Food
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.Collection: Earth
I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.Collection: Boards
it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.Collection: Prejudice
She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.Collection: Believe
How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!Collection: Impossible
Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.Collection: Differences
Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.Collection: Men
And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.Collection: Mean
I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.Collection: Rain
Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.Collection: Men
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.Collection: Eye
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.Collection: Doe
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.Collection: Stupid
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.Collection: Pay
A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.Collection: Mother
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.Collection: Wish
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.Collection: Writing
Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.Collection: Sometimes
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.Collection: Regret
As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!Collection: Brother
When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.Collection: Thinking
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare.Collection: Cheating
Too many cooks spoil the brothCollection: Food
I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.Collection: Mother
He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.Collection: Voice
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.Collection: Fall
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.Collection: Real
It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.Collection: Vegetables
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.Collection: Thinking
It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.Collection: Sake
Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?Collection: Love
Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.Collection: Desire
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.Collection: Sister
He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.Collection: Rain
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.Collection: Nursing
Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?Collection: Thank You
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Forever
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.Collection: Numbers
Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.Collection: Too Late
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.Collection: Love
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.Collection: Wish