Jane Austen: Trending quotes (page 10)

“To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.”

“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”

“She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.”

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

“She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.”

“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.”

“Obstinate, headstrong girl!”

“If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”

“What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”

“Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again”

“We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”

“Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.”

“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.”

“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.”

“Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.”

“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”

“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."
- Mr. Darcy”

“This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.”

“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”