When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside,… — 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
I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. — 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
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other. — 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
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper.” — 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
“Upon my word, sir, your hope is a rather extraordinary one after my declaration. I do assure you that I am not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.” — 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
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. — 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
