I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant. Jane Austen More Quotes by Jane Austen More Quotes From Jane Austen Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity. Jane Austen maturitygrowthself And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. Jane Austen languagehealingfeelings They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects. Jane Austen too-muchknowingattention There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. Jane Austen literatureinspiringpeople You must be the best judge of your own happiness. Jane Austen being-the-bestjudging You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. Jane Austen heartmenyears I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. Jane Austen readinghousebook It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble. Jane Austen prosperitydifficulthumble Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions. Jane Austen self-talkcompanionreflection but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. Jane Austen motivationalinspirationalbook Know your own happiness. Jane Austen knows It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen inspirationalrelationshipfunny The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human. Jane Austen everydaybeliefworld I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy. Jane Austen inferiorityshywish Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. Jane Austen vanityweakinspiring 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 libertyexpectationsheart I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. Jane Austen deservehappiness But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever. Jane Austen changeinspirationalpeople Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. Jane Austen nonsensewhimlaughing It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. Jane Austen lonelinessopportunitytime
