“They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town,” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment or are the result of previous study?” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Good company requires only birth, manners and education and, with regard to education, I'm afraid it is not very particular” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are… — 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
“She has a fund of good sense and observation which, as a companion, makes her infinitely superior to thousands of those who… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elinor saw, and pitied her for, the neglect of abilities which education might have rendered so respectable; but she saw, with less… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He was at that time a very young man, just engaged in the study of the law; and Elizabeth found him extremely… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A sermon, well delivered, is more uncommon even than prayers well read. A sermon, good in itself, is no rare thing. It… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I have formed my plan, and am determined to enter on a course of serious study. Our own library is too well… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You judge very properly," said Mr. Bennet, "and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education. Something must have been wanting within, or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask… — 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
