Quote

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

Jane Austen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
May
Goodness
Giving
Luck
Good
Meet
Never
Perhaps
Collins
Men
Happiness
Disposition
Time
Happy
Shift
Another
Forty
Give
Till

More quotes by Jane Austen

Image
You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes and they give us torment enough.
Jane Austen
Image
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy
Jane Austen
Image
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
Image
About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
Jane Austen
Image
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
Image
Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.
Jane Austen
Image
I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.
Jane Austen
Image
I am not romantic, you know I never was.
Jane Austen
Image
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
Image
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable that one false step involves her in endless ruin that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
Jane Austen
Image
Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love it is not my way, or my nature and I do not think I ever shall.
Jane Austen
Image
Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.
Jane Austen
Image
I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
Jane Austen
Image
No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
Jane Austen
Image
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.
Jane Austen
Image
Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again
Jane Austen
Image
I am happier than Jane she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.
Jane Austen
Image
He is also handsome, replied Elizabeth, which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.
Jane Austen
Image
Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.
Jane Austen
Image
The less said the better.
Jane Austen