Jane Austen: Trending quotes (page 14)

“Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.”

“She attracted him more than he liked.”

“She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.”

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”

“Success supposes endeavour.”

“The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!”

“Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.”
-Elizabeth Bennet”

“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

“I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.”

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

“We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.”

“I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.”

“You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.”

“And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.”

“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.”

“To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well”

“It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.”

“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”

“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”