“You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood… — 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
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
“You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder… — 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
