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
“They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the… — 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
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” ― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She always declares she will never marry, which, of course, means just nothing at all. But I have no idea that she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Why is he so altered? From what can it proceed? It cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened...… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...there are very few of us who have heart enough to be in love without encouragement.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“As long as you need time to think my affections and wishes are unchanged, and one word from you will silence me… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Aye, a very bad business indeed. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world that he can spare from me.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James?” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of… — 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
