I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do,… — 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
You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their… — 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 might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to… — 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
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
I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of… — 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
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