There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. Jane Austen More Quotes by Jane Austen More Quotes From Jane Austen I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like Jane Austen heroines One man's style must not be the rule of another's. Jane Austen styleinspiringmen 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 presence-of-mindtonguesometimes A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. Jane Austen loveromanticfunny You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. Jane Austen silencepridefeelings And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months. Jane Austen good-nighttearsthinking There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. Jane Austen pretty-womanmenworld Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. Jane Austen menfunnyreality Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. Jane Austen girlinspiringinspirational Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. Jane Austen girlmenorder A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. Jane Austen womeninspiringknowledge It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters. Jane Austen daughterviewsmen I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more Jane Austen enoughshouldsorry I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever. Jane Austen pridebelievemoving There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison Jane Austen feelingshearttwo Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest. Jane Austen guiltdonecomfort There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement. Jane Austen feelingshearttwo How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant. Jane Austen ignorantcleverknows Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood Jane Austen judginggivingpeople He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain. Jane Austen departedraininteresting
