Jane Austen

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.”
-- Jane Austen

#Heart #Expectations #Liberty

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
-- Jane Austen

#Happiness #Wedding #Literature

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
-- Jane Austen

#Love #Friendship #Cute Relationship

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
-- Jane Austen

#Inspirational #Funny #Stupid

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
-- Jane Austen

#Wish #Way #Wells

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.”
-- Jane Austen

#Heart #Self #May

“A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.”
-- Jane Austen

#Mind #Doe #Answers

“Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.”
-- Jane Austen

#Vanity #Weak #Produce

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!”
-- Jane Austen

#Math #Approval #Logic

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.”
-- Jane Austen

#Pride #Thinking #Vanity

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”
-- Jane Austen

#Love #Love Is #Enthusiasm

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
-- Jane Austen

#Men #Rocks #Mountain

“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.”
-- Jane Austen

#Moments #Form #Moments In Time

“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.”
-- Jane Austen

#Pain #Names #Giving

“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
-- Jane Austen

#Love Is #Fire

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”
-- Jane Austen

#People #Something New

“But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?”
-- Jane Austen

#Miserable

“We do not suffer by accident.”
-- Jane Austen

#Suffering #Accidents

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
-- Jane Austen

#Love #Romantic #Funny Relationship

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
-- Jane Austen

#Character #Thinking #People

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
-- Jane Austen

#Women #Hate #Independent

“Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…”
-- Jane Austen

#Heart #Sunday #Hands

“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.”
-- Jane Austen

#Grief #Sorrow #World

“There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.”
-- Jane Austen

#Men #Hands #Offending

“She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.”
-- Jane Austen

#Mind #Tongue #Sometimes

“To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.”
-- Jane Austen

#Half #Literature #States

“Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.”
-- Jane Austen

#Dance #Believe #Thinking

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”
-- Jane Austen

#Relationship #Honesty #Doe

“Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.”
-- Jane Austen

#Dresses #Literature #Solicitude

“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”
-- Jane Austen