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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
MAGGIE GRACE 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 People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose...
ANGELA THIRKELL I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
J. K. ROWLING If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office.
GEORGE A. ROMERO Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
JANE AUSTEN I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. WILSON Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

"For the liveliness of your mind,...
JANE AUSTEN Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summari...
TRACY CHEVALIER You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and...
JANE AUSTEN Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that ‘man was made to reason, woman to feel.’ Per...
EMILY AUERBACH Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. ROWLING In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama
HARPER LEE I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses...
EDWARD BOND I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.
SUSANNA CLARKE I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionat...
FRANCES O'CONNOR My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the mis...
JANE AUSTEN 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 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 I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen i...
ANNE STEVENSON She [Jane Austen] was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she eve...
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
KAREN JOY FOWLER Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by ...
MEG CABOT My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life. I don't have the courage to read it,...
KATHERINE REAY The heart is a strange thing," Evelyn said, staring off into space. "It can be broken easily and tak...
SARAH HOLMAN 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 'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our l...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Angry people are not always wise.
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 Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all g...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. ...
MARK TWAIN But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at th...
DODIE SMITH Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature. JANE AUSTEN She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow, I had not a t...
CASSANDRA AUSTEN I remember when I was trying to do 'Metropolitan,' in breaks I would read a page of two of J...
WHIT STILLMAN In the Blue Room, Cora Cash was trying to concentrate on her book. Cora found most novels hard to sy...
DAISY GOODWIN I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and ...
WHIT STILLMAN I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced ...
LAURA MARLING I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest ...
WHIT STILLMAN Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
JANE AUSTEN Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley.
She hesitated a moment and then replied...
JANE AUSTEN She was suddenly roused by the sound of the door-bell, and her spirits were a little fluttered by th...
JANE AUSTEN Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own...
MARK TWAIN The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of ...
JANE AUSTEN I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old mai...
JANE AUSTEN And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not...
JANE AUSTEN And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has
been many a one, I fancy, o...
JANE AUSTEN Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloo...
JANE AUSTEN Jane Austen’s world is a unique wedge of history, immortalized by her wonderful books. It is ironi...
LESLEY-ANNE MCLEOD Jane Austen has phenomenal craft, ... I tried to stay faithful to the narrative, the tone and atmosp...
JOE WRIGHT I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can....
J.K. ROWLING I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets t...
VAL MCDERMID The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN I will only add, God bless you.
JANE AUSTEN I remember, when I was a teenager, 'Pride And Prejudice' came out. We hadn't had a perio...
KATHERINE KELLY I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
VICTOR GARBER Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because w...
MARK HADDON We have also an edition of The Trial, by the notorious Jew, Kafka. Berlin would appreciate it, I am ...
STEPHEN FRY I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. T...
TOM HIDDLESTON No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale...
SOPHIE HANNAH 'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real ...
SUSANNA CLARKE I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will atte...
VAL MCDERMID Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
JANE AUSTEN No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can m...
JANE AUSTEN For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] so...
REBECCA SOLNIT Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a...
JANE AUSTEN It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
JANE AUSTEN Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the b...
DODIE SMITH Quite definitely a Bingley
LAUREN WILLIG You know, there was a time when childbirth was possibly the most terrifying thing you could do in yo...
STEPHENIE MEYER Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
JONATHAN COE 'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet ther...
NATASHA LITTLE To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession o...
BRUCE FEIRSTEIN I know, I can't believe it's an American either. I can do the accent, they wouldn't have hired me if...
ANNE HATHAWAY No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of t...
HOWARD JACOBSON Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen'...
WHIT STILLMAN Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christma...
MICHAEL DIRDA Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...
JANE AUSTEN As for Elizabeth Bennet, our chief reason for accepting her point of view as a reflection of her aut...
MARY LASCELLES You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of c...
JANE AUSTEN This is an evening of wonders, indeed!
JANE AUSTEN I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.
JANE AUSTEN I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know i...
JANE AUSTEN I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. A...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane ...
GILLIAN FLYNN Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am...
CAROLINA HERRERA What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I'm quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of ...
HUGH GRANT But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, ...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH

More Jane Austen

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 Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
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