I want nothing but death. Jane Austen More Quotes by Jane Austen More Quotes From Jane Austen If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. Jane Austen memories past thinking And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business. Jane Austen mrs-bennet hopeless seems 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. Jane Austen widows daughter two To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. Jane Austen merit yield understanding Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible. Jane Austen prejudice dancing together She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. Jane Austen happy-with-him darcy should 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. Jane Austen girl life years But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. Jane Austen sister wedding love Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. Jane Austen girl literature inspiring She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind. Jane Austen girl heart boys Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. Jane Austen inspiring men book What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! Jane Austen wild-imagination literature self I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable. Jane Austen ideas It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. Jane Austen women marriage inspiring Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes. Jane Austen hours may inspirational The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved. Jane Austen dancing tears eye There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way. Jane Austen pride trying way I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too. Jane Austen extravagant spending sorry It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. Jane Austen exemplary vegetables years Success supposes endeavour. Jane Austen endeavour
