There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — 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 hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what… — 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
“But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He hoped she might make some amends for the many very plain faces he was continually passing in the streets. The worst… — 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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