Jane austen Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery.”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jane austen Persuasion Romance
“Perhaps to them the first condition for anything having real charm was this: that it must not really exist.” — Karen Blixen Copy Share Image
“I gave away my mystery, knowing I shouldn't, yet incapable of anything else.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Besides, people never regard anything that serves and benefits them as mysterious; only the things which damage or threaten them are mysterious.” — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
“You are alive, and you don’t need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.” — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
“...there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed.” — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
“In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Anything’s possible, I suppose. It’s a wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth, I rather enjoy the mystery. I will let it remain impenetrable for the time being.” — Damian Murphy Copy Share Image
“Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“I may not know what my heart truly holds, but who does? I think we're all mysteries, even to ourselves.” — Carolyn Ives Gilman 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, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the… — Jane Austen Copy Share
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
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“The celestial brightness of Pride and Prejudice is unequalled even in Jane Austen's other work; after a life of much disappointment and grief, in… — Elizabeth Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The milk of human kindness was kept often in the larder, and the tea served with lemon.” — John Halperin Copy Share Image
“Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“The heart is a strange thing," Evelyn said, staring off into space. "It can be broken easily and takes a long time to mend,… — Sarah Holman Copy Share Image
“At last, the details finally settled, Abbey found herself coming to terms with the inevitable: the whole lot of them would go to Cape… — Emily Ann Benedict Copy Share Image
“As he talked, I watched Emma and wondered what is to become of her. She is of an age to be married but she spends her time with people who are so much older than she, that she is never likely to meet a husband. And if she does, I do not know if she will wish to marry. She… — Amanda Grange Copy Share
“I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.” — George Knightley Copy Share Image
“Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Your powers of observation are formidable," Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.” — Stephanie Wardrop Copy Share Image
![“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories -- entering into their feelings, validating their experiences -- is the highest way of acknowledging their humanity, the sweetest form of usefulness.” quote by William Deresiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2bb/william-deresiewicz-15471_jane-austen_jane-austen-was-not-a-novelist-for-nothi_62623.jpg)
