Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
...but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power... — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time,* and the changes of the human mind!’ And” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in… — 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
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — 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
