“Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But," said I, "to be quite honest, I do not think I can live without something of a musical society. I condition… — 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
“I have observed, Mrs Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If there are young ladies in the world at her time of life more dull of fancy and more careless of pleasing,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“poor Isabella;—which poor Isabella, passing her life with those she doated on, full of their merits, blind to their faults, and always… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Sir Edward's great object in life was to be seductive. With such personal advantages as he knew himself to possess, and such… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“To be disgraced in the eye of the world, to wear the appearance of infamy while her heart is all purity, her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Miss Bates…had never boasted either beauty or cleverness. Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My fingers", said Elizabeth, "do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you are not sitting in this room, and I am not sitting by you. These are points in which a doubt… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living,… — 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
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