General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I honour your circumspection. A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little. One cannot know what a man really is by the end… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But a note had had been prepared and left for her, written in the very style to touch --a small mixture of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I cannot express my own abhorrence of myself. Whenever I looked towards the past, I saw some duty neglected, or some failing… — 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
