Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My fingers", said Elizabeth, "do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them! — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another… — 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
