Jane Austen: Doing (page 2)

“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 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.”

“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.”

“Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”

“That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.”

“We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present”

“Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.”

“I do not cough for my own amusement.”

“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

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

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

“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”

“The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy”