The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives. — 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
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. — 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
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
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
There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy. — 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 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
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
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be… — 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
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
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
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“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
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“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
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
![“I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51c/jane-austen-39_anne-elliot_i-believe-you-men-capable-of-everything_652755.jpg)
