" To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. "

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or…of something else. "

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown. "

Jane Austen, Emma English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife. "

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. "

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? "

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. "

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. "

Jane Austen, Emma English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. "

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. "

Jane Austen, Emma English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" It 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 on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. "

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (opening lines) English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. "

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them. "

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. "

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. "

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other. "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. "

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? "

Jane Austen English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. "

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion. "

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. "

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. "

Jane Austen, Emma English novelist (1775 – 1817)

Entries and comments feeds. Valid XHTML and CSS.