“I believe, there is scarcely a young lady in the united kingdoms, who would not rather put up with the misfortune of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“What say you, Mary? for you are a young lady of deep reflection I know, and read great books, and make extracts."… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How much time she might, in her own fancy, allot for its dominion, is another concern. It would not be fair to… — 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
“It is amazing to me," said Bingley, "How young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are."… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great… — 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
“Sally, or rather Sarah (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A few days ago I was at a private ball given by Mr Ashburnham. As my mother never goes out she entrusted… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Whether she thought of him so much, while she drank her warm wine and water, and prepared herself for bed, as to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He was a blessing to all the juvenile part of the neighbourhood, for in summer he was for ever forming parties to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“What can be the meaning of that emphatic exclamation?" cried he. "Do you consider the forms of introduction, and the stress that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt,… — 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
