Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving… — 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
You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think… — 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