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Jane Austen

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CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Jane Austen’s world is a unique wedge of history, immortalized by her wonderful books. It is ironi...
LESLEY-ANNE MCLEOD Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because w...
MARK HADDON I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
MAGGIE GRACE I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest ...
WHIT STILLMAN I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced ...
LAURA MARLING They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM So what if she wasn’t a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn’t wear her heart on he...
SARA SHERIDAN The heart is a strange thing," Evelyn said, staring off into space. "It can be broken easily and tak...
SARAH HOLMAN People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose...
ANGELA THIRKELL Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen'...
WHIT STILLMAN They both had a broken heart, but she turned out to be cold hearted, he didn't lose hope because tha...
DAVID BENTO GUERRA Her innocence was maddening. She should know. She should know what her steward had done. She should ...
MARIE RUTKOSKI My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started...
REGINA BRETT He indicated that he was sorry that he had done this to Diane and certainly the effect that it had o...
ROBERT KELLY ...he lives for her carrying her image in his heart and toiling for her all her days.
JAMES RUSSELL MILLER It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
KAREN JOY FOWLER Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
JANE AUSTEN My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it...
RUTH REICHL I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus spari...
CATHLEEN SCHINE How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
DODIE SMITH His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y...
CAROLYN JEWEL Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant...
NANCY KRESS Why could he not have chosen some other woman? Why Avelina? But he knew why. It was because she had ...
MELANIE DICKERSON Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice should create in the discerning male reader a deeply rooted conc...
GERALD WEAVER Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

"For the liveliness of your mind,...
JANE AUSTEN You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and...
JANE AUSTEN I watch him inhale Mary Jane .. He kisses me and blows her into my mouth. High with Mary Jane. .. Th...
NERISSA IRVING Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that ‘man was made to reason, woman to feel.’ Per...
EMILY AUERBACH Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in h...
KATE MORTON Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. ROWLING She did believe in God. And she believed that Jane was with him. And suddenly her pain and grief bec...
LOUISE PENNY Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She had some money left over from her allowance that I made her give her father for gas, driving his...
MARIA PARTON He did a fabulous job. He was giving her everything he had, and I'm happy for him.
MARK MARTIN Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what h...
JANE AUSTEN Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the...
ROXANNA ALIBA KAZIBWE We lived with him for her first three years. He did everything for her. He walked her to sleep, he s...
HOLLY DERRICK Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH When he opened the gate of his heart for her to come inside, little did he know, she was looking for...
NAMAN GARG The best way to describe her is consistent. You can always count on her. She's great under pressure ...
JOELLE SCHWENK Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a...
JANE AUSTEN If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office.
GEORGE A. ROMERO One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things whi...
VAL MCDERMID They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment...
JORGE AMADO Love is not for only One Day, Every Day is Valentine Day and may be actual Valentine day is not a da...
LOVE QUOTES FOR HER I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
J. K. ROWLING My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to c...
MARK TWAIN I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.
SUSANNA CLARKE She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the mis...
JANE AUSTEN She didn't tell Dad about it until she had done it. She felt it was her duty, and she did it.
JAMES RICE She was breathtaking in her beauty and her human spirit, he thought, unable to speak as he gazed upo...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Believe me what I did came from my heart. She asked me for help and I gave it to her. She wanted her...
JOE SPARICO How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for w...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe...
CASSANDRA CLARE She culminated her career at the end. She just did what she had always done.
DAN MESSMANN [Miller, whose profile eerily matches early portraits of Byron, skillfully blends his restless passi...
VANESSA REDGRAVE As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho ca...
MAUREEN DOWD I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self...
EMILY AUERBACH She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wa...
KIM HARRISON He did not speak; merely looked at her with an expression she had seen traces of before but never fu...
ANNE FORTIER The storm didn't take her, God took her, ... We could've just drowned in that boat because it was ju...
JOAN JOHNSON To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not u...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ For all the way he loved her. Every song had her memory, every rain had her smell, and every girl ha...
AKSHAY VASU Courtney did a lot. We couldn't have done it without her.
ABBY FENNESSEY She kissed his chest. "Thanks for letting me into your heart."
He tucked her hair behind her e...
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KARRINE STEFFANS I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a m...
JANE AUSTEN Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious f...
JANE AUSTEN When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach...
JANE AUSTEN This pretty young blonde girl was screaming at her boyfriend because he text-messaged her that they ...
JOEL SCHUMACHER I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. WILSON In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama
HARPER LEE In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA He shook her hand and kissed her cheek. Kathy was pumped up after that. If he had done that with the...
PERRY MCGEE How do YOU know what God meant? Did he whisper into your ear? Did he put the knife in your heart? Di...
CHRISTINA ENGELA She'd put her teeth in his heart, long ago, and he'd left the print there, evidence that he wanted h...
LAUREN GILLEY An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing a...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and somet...
KRISTIN CASHORE You're forgiven."

I don't deserve her.

"But not forgotten," I whisper. She'll ...
JEWEL E. ANN Cal's attraction to her was unstoppable - undeniable. Like a thunderbolt piercing his heart, it beat...
NINI CHURCH Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved h...
CASSANDRA CLARE I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining...
A. N. WILSON She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, f...
ELIZABETH GASKELL In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.'
Was s...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Her gaze did not leave her burning groom, nor did her mind abandon the fact that he was not consumed...
ELIZABETH STERLING She has talent, but it is her heart that has got her this far. She has a lot of heart. When I first ...
CINDY VIRDO She [Jane Austen] was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she eve...
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD When evening fell the boy would bring the girl a glass of tea, a slice of lemon cake, an apple bloss...
LEIGH BARDUGO I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’...
JOJO MOYES It was an attempt to alter her appearance. She didn't want anyone to recognize her ... her hair was ...
BILL ELWELL He wanted to give her another word to say, something like luscious or whisper or strawberry. Hell, a...
J.R. WARD Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of fai...
CASSANDRA CLARE He didn't like her strong, nor did he like her weak.
LILY KING

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Every savage can dance.
JANE AUSTEN To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
JANE AUSTEN A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
JANE AUSTEN If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
JANE AUSTEN One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv...
JANE AUSTEN The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi...
JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ...
JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
JANE AUSTEN I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi...
JANE AUSTEN I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses...
JANE AUSTEN What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo...
JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...
JANE AUSTEN Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
JANE AUSTEN Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces...
JANE AUSTEN I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, ...
JANE AUSTEN Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...
JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...
JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...
JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to...
JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
JANE AUSTEN We are all fools in love
JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ...
JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p...
JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor...
JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f...
JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
JANE AUSTEN I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
JANE AUSTEN I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif...
JANE AUSTEN To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at la...
JANE AUSTEN Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
JANE AUSTEN In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te...
JANE AUSTEN There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...
JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai...
JANE AUSTEN Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ...
JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
JANE AUSTEN From politics it was an easy step to silence.
JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab...
JANE AUSTEN One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
JANE AUSTEN It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co...
JANE AUSTEN It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s...
JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o...
JANE AUSTEN One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth...
JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied.
JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...
JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
JANE AUSTEN With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
JANE AUSTEN There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t...
JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be...
JANE AUSTEN And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea...
JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,...
JANE AUSTEN Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara...
JANE AUSTEN Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
JANE AUSTEN Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing...
JANE AUSTEN A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh...
JANE AUSTEN . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether...
JANE AUSTEN Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso...
JANE AUSTEN You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear...
JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
JANE AUSTEN One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ...
JANE AUSTEN Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe...
JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ...
JANE AUSTEN My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
JANE AUSTEN If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
JANE AUSTEN I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed femal...
JANE AUSTEN It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
JANE AUSTEN It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respec...
JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...
JANE AUSTEN Well! Evil to some is always good to others.
JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considera...
JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to
JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the ...
JANE AUSTEN I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan...
JANE AUSTEN I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It...
JANE AUSTEN What are men to rocks and mountains?
JANE AUSTEN Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
JANE AUSTEN One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at...
JANE AUSTEN It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before
JANE AUSTEN Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.
JANE AUSTEN In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the se...
JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
JANE AUSTEN We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our me...
JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead o...
JANE AUSTEN When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to...
JANE AUSTEN The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwel...
JANE AUSTEN Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always ...
JANE AUSTEN I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few d...
JANE AUSTEN It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be...
JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...
JANE AUSTEN An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
JANE AUSTEN She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho...
JANE AUSTEN One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fa...
JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taug...
JANE AUSTEN The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
JANE AUSTEN A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of
JANE AUSTEN My good opinion once lost is lost forever.
JANE AUSTEN Till this moment I never knew myself.
JANE AUSTEN He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.
JANE AUSTEN An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your...
JANE AUSTEN From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, y...
JANE AUSTEN To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love
JANE AUSTEN You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell m...
JANE AUSTEN I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with ...
JANE AUSTEN I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
JANE AUSTEN I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the...
JANE AUSTEN Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.
JANE AUSTEN Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one...
JANE AUSTEN It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and ...
JANE AUSTEN An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her care...
JANE AUSTEN I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
JANE AUSTEN There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give ...
JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for t...
JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...
JANE AUSTEN There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
JANE AUSTEN Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s...
JANE AUSTEN Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m...
JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in ...
JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
JANE AUSTEN What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
JANE AUSTEN There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
JANE AUSTEN There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
JANE AUSTEN Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
JANE AUSTEN A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sp...
JANE AUSTEN The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without...
JANE AUSTEN It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little t...
JANE AUSTEN She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa...
JANE AUSTEN Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo...
JANE AUSTEN There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got al...
JANE AUSTEN Beware how you give your heart.
JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ...
JANE AUSTEN Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect...
JANE AUSTEN You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...
JANE AUSTEN Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...
JANE AUSTEN Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...
JANE AUSTEN The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...
JANE AUSTEN We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
JANE AUSTEN It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these...
JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
JANE AUSTEN Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
JANE AUSTEN General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
JANE AUSTEN Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums...
JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.
JANE AUSTEN I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
JANE AUSTEN My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ...
JANE AUSTEN One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it
JANE AUSTEN But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ...
JANE AUSTEN Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu...
JANE AUSTEN It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno...
JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
JANE AUSTEN It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in...
JANE AUSTEN My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m...
JANE AUSTEN Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
JANE AUSTEN They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ...
JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ...
JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ...
JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted.
JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn...
JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already.
JANE AUSTEN It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
JANE AUSTEN