Jane Austen: Trending quotes (page 12)

“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.”

“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”

“Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.”

“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”

“Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same
feelings."

"I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be
no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.”

“Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."

-Elinor Dashwood”

“And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”

“[N]obody minds having what is too good for them.”

“I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do whatright.”

“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”

“I have no talent for certainty.”

“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.”

“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”

“Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”

“I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.”

“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.”

“And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.”

“I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.”