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 was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half… — 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
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her… — 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
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
I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that… — 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
