Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it,… — 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
Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“These are the sights, Harriet, to do one good. How trifling they make every thing else appear!---I feel now as if I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely… — 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
Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time,* and the changes of the human mind!’ And” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I see your face in my mind’s eye under every varying circumstance of the day.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in… — 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
“How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind! If any one faculty of our… — 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
“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
