Jane Austen Quotes.
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
My heart is, and always will be, yours.
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
