Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought… — 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
My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
...but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power... — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their… — 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
I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence… — 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
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.… — 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
You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it,… — 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
![“I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dff/jane-austen-39_deals_i-read-it-history-a-little-as-a-duty-but_2713541.jpg)
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