To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse. — 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
