“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
