Category: Author Jane Austen

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth. Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 44 No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine… But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine… Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 44 my courage always rises…

Money is the best recipe for happiness. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 32 I understand Crawford paid you a visit?””Yes.””And was he attentive?””Yes, very.””And has your heart changed towards him?””Yes. Several times. I have – I find that I – I find that-“”Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not…

Elinor placed all that was astonishing in this way of acting to his mother’s account; and it was happy for her that he had a mother whose character was so imperfectly known to her, as to be the general excuse for every thing strange on the part of her son. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility…

But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgments of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one’s happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance. In the present instance, this last-arrived Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 0 Mr. Bennet replied that…

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 97 Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 96 Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as…

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. Jane Austen Mansfield Park 150 Always resignation and acceptance. Always…

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.”-Elizabeth Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 17 You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility…

Lady Middleton resigned herself… Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every day. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 6 I will not allow books to prove anything. Jane Austen Persuasion 6 It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten…

She regained the street–happy in this, that though much had been forced on her against her will, though she had in fact heard the whole substance of Jane Fairfax’s letter, she had been able to escape the letter itself. Jane Austen Emma 1 My dear,” replied her husband, “I have two small favours to request.…

[…] no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex […] Jane Austen Emma 3 …it was rather because she felt less happy than she had expected.  She laughed because she was disappointed… Jane Austen Emma 3 The removal of one solicitude…