A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The person, be it lady or gentlemen who has not pleasure in a good book must be intoleranlty stupid. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I am sure Lady Russell would like him. He is just Lady Russell's sort. Give him a book, and he will read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?" "Yes, I am fond of history." "I wish I were… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and… — 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
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than… — 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
