“But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I have observed...in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Sir Thomas was indeed the life of the party, who at his suggestion now seated themselves round the fire.” — 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
“At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear any thing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks.' 'I am sorry for that. At her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Reluctantly, and with much hesitation, did she then begin what might perhaps, at the end of half an hour, be termed, by… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I am going to-morrow where I shall find a man who has not one agreeable quality, who has neither manner nor sense… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for him, by calling him "poor Richard," been nothing… — 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
“Never did I see such an affecting Scene as was the meeting of Edward and Augustus. 'My Life! my Soul!' (exclaimed the… — 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
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[T]hey are much to be pitied who have not ... been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks.' 'I am sorry for that. At her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord!… — 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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