There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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
How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them! — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just… — 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
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My fingers", said Elizabeth, "do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Upon my word, sir, your hope is a rather extraordinary one after my declaration. I do assure you that I am not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — 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
