I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Now I must give one smirk, and then we may be rational again." Catherine turned away her head, not knowing whether she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She considered that there were misfortunes of a much greater magnitude than the loss of a ball experienced every day by some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you are not sitting in this room, and I am not sitting by you. These are points in which a doubt… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Lady Middleton resigned herself... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“new acquaintances every day; but for your sakes, we would do anything. Lydia, my love, though you are the youngest, I dare… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day… — 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
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You go to Brighton! -- I would not trust you so near it as East-Bourne, for fifty pounds! No, Kitty, I have… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Teach us...... that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes. — 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