Poetry Quote by Jane Austen — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

“Angry people are not always wise.”

“I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.”

“They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. With the exception, perhaps, of Admiral and Mrs. Croft, who seemed particularly attached and happy, (Anne could allow no other exception even among the married couples) there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so simliar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become aquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.”

“We walked through night until there was a poem.”

“I remain”

“you”

“Base words are uttered only by the base”

“How happy is the little stone”

“Sometimes a piece of the sun burned like a coin between my hands.”