A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, (or smiling)… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I pity, approve, respect, admire her, but I neither desire her company, nor am greatly concerned about her destiny, and she makes… — A.C. Bradley Copy Share Image
The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I purposefully abstain from dates on this occasion,that very one may be liberty to fix their own,aware that the cure of unconquerable… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas… — 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
“He is blinded and nothing will open his eyes,nothing can,after having had truths so long before him in vain.--He will marry her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Did you just say you Think Mansfield Park is boring? Get out of my house.” — Joel Derfner Copy Share Image
“Not even Fanny had tears for aunt Norris, not even when she was gone for ever.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My beloved Laura” (said she to me a few Hours before she died) “take warning from my unhappy End …Beware of fainting-fits…Beware… — Jane Austen Love and Freindship Copy Share Image
“As for his sudden change of heart, he had suddenly remembered the end of Mansfield Park, and how Edmund fell out of… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she may… — 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
Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work.… — Patricia Rozema Copy Share Image
“He slid Gay Whore back onto the shelf, and then saw Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, which didn't seem to fit with… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The use of reading, Gibbon says somewhere, is to aid us in thinking. I have always disagreed with Gibbon over that; he… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
