Jane Austen: Trending quotes (page 11)

“to hope was to expect”

“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”

“I walk: I prefer walking.”

“I will only add, God bless you.”

“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.”

“A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

“You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.”

“Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.”

“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”

“Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

“Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.”

“You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.”

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”

“I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like”

“Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.”

“Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”

“my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be…”

“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.”