1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

to hope was to expect

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

In spite of all her faults she knew she was dear to him; might she not say, very dear?

Marianne was vexed at it for her sister's sake, and turned her eyes towards Elinor to see how she bore these attacks, with an earnestness which gave Elinor far more pain than could arise from such common-place raillery as Mrs. Jennings's.

…—We have not all, you know, the same tenderness of disposition…

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!