... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather… — 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
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
And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so;… — 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
I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be… — 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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