“May we take my uncle's letter to read to her? Take whatever you like, and get away.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say), there shall be no check… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I suppose you have heard of the handsome letter Mr. Frank Churchill had written to Mrs. Weston? I understand it was a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“As far as I have had opportunity of judging, it appears to me that the usual style of letter-writing among women is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He is blinded and nothing will open his eyes,nothing can,after having had truths so long before him in vain.--He will marry her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits in which it was difficult to determine whether pleasure or… — 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
“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
“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
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
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“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
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
