1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

The first experimental convinction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

Considero la bendición de una esposa como un tanto acierto se describe enlosdiscretos versos del poeta: " Del cielo el mejor y el último don".

It was a sweet view-sweet to the eye and the mind. English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive.

I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else in my own way. Greatness will not make me so".

Some people call him proud but I am sure I never saw anything of it. To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men.

La timidez es únicamente efecto de una sensación de inferioridad en uno u otro aspecto.

A very little quiet reflection was enough to satisfy Emma

What totally different feelings did Emma take back into the house from what she had brought out!- she had then been only daring to hope for a little respite of suffering;- she was now in an exquisite site fluttering of happiness moreover as she believed must still be greater when the flutter should have passed away

She loved Anne better than she loved her own abilities.