Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family… — 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
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — 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
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Teach us...... that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — 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
“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
