Quote

Now be sincere did you admire me for my impertinence? For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

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
Impertinence
Sincere
Admire
Mind
Liveliness

More quotes by Jane Austen

Image
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen
Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
Image
It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.
Jane Austen
Image
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.
Jane Austen
Image
I understand Crawford paid you a visit? Yes. And was he attentive? Yes, very. And has your heart changed towards him? Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that- Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you. And I you.
Jane Austen
Image
people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them
Jane Austen
Image
To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.
Jane Austen
Image
There are secrets in all families.
Jane Austen
Image
Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
Jane Austen
Image
Faultless in spite of all her faults.
Jane Austen
Image
A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
Jane Austen
Image
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.
Jane Austen
Image
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
Jane Austen
Image
I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.
Jane Austen
Image
If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.
Jane Austen
Image
We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
Jane Austen
Image
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
Jane Austen
Image
You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.
Jane Austen
Image
You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.
Jane Austen
Image
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