“A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favor of happiness, as a very resolute character.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But now you love a hyacinth. So much the better. You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne could not immediately fall into a quotation again. The sweet scenes of autumn were for a while put by - unless… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Her tears fell abundantly—but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes—and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The event had every promise of happiness for her friend. Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable character, easy fortune, suitable age,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne saw nothing, thought nothing of the brilliancy of the room. Her happiness was from within. Her eyes were bright, and her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness,” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.” ~ Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)” — 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
