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 one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably… — 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
“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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