A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I… — 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
...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely… — 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
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“What a delightful library you have at Pemberley, Mr. Darcy!” “It ought to be good,” he replied, “it has been the work… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of… — 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
“In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the… — 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 have formed my plan, and am determined to enter on a course of serious study. Our own library is too well… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you are not sitting in this room, and I am not sitting by you. These are points in which a doubt… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Even in my profession how little the art of reading has been studied! how little a clear manner, and good delivery, have… — 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
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library. — 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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