Jane Austen Quotes

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more." ~ Emma by Jane Austen Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. ~ Emma by Jane Austen There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. ~ Emma by Jane Austen There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. ~ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent. ~ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen "There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere." ~ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen "Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch." ~ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen "We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be." ~ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen "Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion." ~ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen "His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle." ~ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen