I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she may… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, (or smiling)… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I purposefully abstain from dates on this occasion,that very one may be liberty to fix their own,aware that the cure of unconquerable… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He is blinded and nothing will open his eyes,nothing can,after having had truths so long before him in vain.--He will marry her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
