There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy. — 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
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
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
Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day,… — 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
May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her… — 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
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
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
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
“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
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who… — 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
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
... 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 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
What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in… — 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
“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — 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, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37a/jane-austen-39_marriage_everybody-is-taken-in-at-some-period-or_7175.jpg)
