Jane AustenLoss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be … ▶371Reading
Jane AustenYou were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them. … ▶371Thought
Jane AustenWere I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. ✨ Emma.371LoveThought
Jane AustenAnd your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. And yours, he replied with a smile, is willfully to misunderstand them. ✨ Jane Austen (2015). Pride and Prejudice, p.76, B… ▶371Reading
Jane AustenWhat a shame, for I dearly love to laugh. ✨ Fictional character: Elizabeth Bennet. Pride and Prejudice, 2005.371HumorLove
Jane AustenCatherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself. ✨ … ▶372Love
Jane AustenAnne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not. ✨ Jane Austen (2013). Persuasion In Modern English, p.180, BookCaps Study Guid… ▶372HopeReading
Jane AustenHer form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was c… ▶361LoveReadingTruth
Jane AustenI do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, b… ▶361Humanity
Jane AustenIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may … ▶372ReflectionThoughtTruth
Jane AustenHow wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind! ✨ Jane Austen (1833). Mansfield Park, p.184362HumanityThoughtTime
Jane Austen..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself ✨ Jane Austen (2007). The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, p.6, Wordsworth Editions362Reading
Jane AustenOf this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with. ✨ Jane Auste… ▶351ReadingThought
Jane AustenYou deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. ✨ Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). Jane Austen's Letters… ▶351Humanity
Jane AustenMiss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more tha… ▶373ReadingThought
Jane AustenSuch a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. ✨ Jane Austen (2016). Persuasion, p.221… ▶362PoliticsTime
Jane AustenWe live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. ✨ 1818 Of the difference between women and men. Persuasion, ch.23.351Love
Jane AustenIt is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend. ✨ Jane Austen (2006). The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics De… ▶351Reading
Jane AustenIf a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the wo… ▶351Love
Jane AustenDare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. ✨ Jane Austen (1833). Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasi… ▶363DeathLove
Jane AustenShe was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love. ✨ Jane Austen (1882). Emma, p.155363Love
Jane AustenHe certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person. ✨ Jane Austen (2016). Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton C… ▶363Humanity
Jane AustenYou have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you. ✨ Jane Austen (2006). 8 Books … ▶374HumanityLoveReading
Jane AustenYou showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. ✨ Jane Austen (1853). Pride and Prejudice, p.323341Death
Jane AustenAll the world is good and agreeable in your eyes. ✨ Fictional character: Elizabeth Bennet. Pride & Prejudice, www.imdb.com. 2005.363Time
Jane AustenThe evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she w… ▶363ReadingTime
Jane AustenAngry people are not always wise. ✨ Jane Austen (2014). Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations, p.472, Ageless Reads341HumanityReading
Jane AustenBut to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it? ✨ Jane Austen (2014). Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations, p.143, Agel… ▶374Reading
Jane AustenI am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed! ✨ Pride and Prejudice.341Philosophy
Jane AustenOne cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight. ✨ Jane Austen (2014). Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations, p.284, Ageless R… ▶341Reading
