She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.
JANE AUSTENA person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
More Jane Austen Quotes
-
-
Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
JANE AUSTEN -
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
JANE AUSTEN -
It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
JANE AUSTEN -
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
JANE AUSTEN -
We do not suffer by accident.
JANE AUSTEN -
The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
JANE AUSTEN -
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
JANE AUSTEN -
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
JANE AUSTEN -
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTEN -
The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
JANE AUSTEN -
Let us have the luxury of silence.
JANE AUSTEN -
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
JANE AUSTEN -
The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
JANE AUSTEN -
I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
JANE AUSTEN -
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
JANE AUSTEN