I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where…

Let us have the luxury of silence.

— Jane Austen

“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!”

— Jane Austen

“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

“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,…

— Jane Austen

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

“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”

— Jane Austen

“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

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

— Jane Austen

“But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.”

— Jane Austen

“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”

— Jane Austen

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

— Jane Austen

“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment”

— Jane Austen

“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

“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…”

— Jane Austen

“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”

— Jane Austen