I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it. Jane Austen More Quotes by Jane Austen More Quotes From Jane Austen What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering? Jane Austen sufferingheartlife The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance Jane Austen girlbeautifulsex I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. Jane Austen trashlibrarycommon I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it. Jane Austen speechablemight Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world Jane Austen further-educationgirlgiving Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. Jane Austen wifehusbandliterature I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. Jane Austen organizationworkinspiring Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope. Jane Austen receivingfeelingsgiving A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world. Jane Austen prettiesttrialsworld But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.] Jane Austen gothiccenturyengland The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time. Jane Austen heartlovemen Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity. Jane Austen matternoisesound His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle. Jane Austen rulingprinciplesease To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind Jane Austen realmindmen Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. Jane Austen eventssatisfactiondesire Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end. Jane Austen checksgeniusletters He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody. Jane Austen affectionateheart I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. Jane Austen suspectsliterature I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice. Jane Austen sacrificeuse A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her. Jane Austen readyimaginemen
