Jane Austen: Trending quotes (page 8)

“Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.”

“You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"… when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.”

“Beware how you give your heart.”

“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”

“I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.”

“To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last…”

“[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”

“I dearly love a laugh… I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”

“Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”

“No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.”

“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?”

“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”

“It's such a happiness when good people get together.”

“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.”

“Every savage can dance.”

“How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.”

“Badly done, Emma!”

“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”

“Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked;”