“Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[T]hey are much to be pitied who have not ... been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“and yet, it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And, and—we think very differently of the nature of women, if they can imagine a woman so very soon capable of returning… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so… — 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
Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better:… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“With a perversity of judgement, which must be attributed to his not having by Nature a very strong head, the Graces, the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth related to Jane the next day what had passed between Mr. Wickham and herself. Jane listened with astonishment and concern; she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Fanny spoke her feelings. "Here's harmony!" said she; "here's repose! Here's what may leave all painting and all music behind, and what… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature. Anne Elliot: It would… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.” — 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
“Mrs. Musgrove was of a comfortable substantial size, infinitely more fitted by nature to express good cheer and good humor, than tenderness… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying a bon mot, for there is not the least… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish… — 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
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