The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing,… — 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
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
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
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
“Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbid -- a dagger… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“What a good-for-nothing-fellow Charles is to bespeak the stockings - I hope he will be too hot all the rest of his… — 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
My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another… — 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
