“Consideration and Esteem surely follow command of Language as Admiration waits on Beauty” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one… — 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
“Everybody pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We… — 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
