She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. — 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
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
…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry… — 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
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
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
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
if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she… — 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
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
Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion.… — 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
Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think… — 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
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
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 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
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“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
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
![“I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dff/jane-austen-39_deals_i-read-it-history-a-little-as-a-duty-but_2713541.jpg)
