Emily > Emily's Quotes

“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, Persuasion

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“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

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“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, Pride and Prejudice

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
― Jane Austen

“Obstinate, headstrong girl!”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.”
― Jane Austen

“I walk: I prefer walking.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“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, Sense and Sensibility

“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“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, Mansfield Park

“I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.”
― Jane Austen

“Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...”
― Jane Austen

“Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world,”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“…her mind about as ignorant and uninformed as the female mind at seventeen usually is.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state.”
― Jane Austen