When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably… — 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
