Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““THIS little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication.”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the needs of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.” — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned them all.” — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“PREFACE TO THE 1832 EDITION At the head of the earlier editions of this work, published at first without the name of the author,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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“After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.” — Dan Simmons 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
