“I will read you their names directly; here they are in my pocket-book. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Yes, yes, if you please. No reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own… — 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
Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and… — 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
A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united. I could not be happy… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You have been abroad then?” said Henry, a little surprised. “Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always… — 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
“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
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
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
“His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her family cares, is still… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A person, be it a man or a woman, who has not been exposed to the great wonders of literature, must be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“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 Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
