In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their… — 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
The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. Can you?" "Yes, I am fond of history." "I wish I were… — 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
