A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
...but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power... — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time,* and the changes of the human mind!’ And” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way… — 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
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
“He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that… — 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
The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than… — 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
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
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a… — 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
But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I… — 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
