I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments,… — 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 never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural… — 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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