I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In… — 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
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think… — 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
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