without music, life would be a blank to me #JaneAusten #Emma

As to the mode of our travelling to town, I want to go in a stage-coach, but Frank will not let me. #JaneAusten #letters1796

Though I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to give them as unstudied an air as possible. #JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice

May she always be poor, if she can employ her riches no better. #JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility

Your peace will not be shipwrecked as mine has been. #JaneAusten #Persuasion

By the by, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon, for I am put on the sofa near the fire, and can drink as much wine as I like. #JaneAusten #letter1813

I have often observed it before—she likes to go her own way to work; she does not like to be dictated to; #JaneAusten #MansfieldPark

I am no advocate for entire seclusion. I think, on the contrary, when people shut themselves up entirely from society, it is a very bad thing; #JaneAusten #Emma

I must struggle through my sorrows and difficulties as I can. #JaneAusten #MansfieldPark

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in her silence and sadness she was the very reverse of all that she had been before #JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey

Do not pretend, with your sweet temper, to understand a bad one, or to lay down rules for it: you must let it go its own way. #JaneAusten #Emma

Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world that can be spared from me. You are all to come to Pemberley at Christmas. #JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice

She sighed for the air, the liberty, the quiet of the country; #JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility

I am tired of submitting my will to the caprices of others; of resigning my own judgment in deference to those to whom I owe no duty, and for whom I feel no respect. #JaneAusten #LadySusan

Jane Austen's 250th birthday is coming up in December and I hope you'll celebrate by taking a turn about the room, acquiring a passion for dead leaves & closet shelves, and taking a fancy to the last person you could ever be prevailed upon to marry.

I do believe those are best off that have fewest servants. #JaneAusten #Sanditon

An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome. #JaneAusten #Emma

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I never mind going through anything, where a friend is concerned. #JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey

I am so ill I can hardly speak. #JaneAusten #Persuasion

Modesty, and all that, is very well in its way, but really a little common honesty is sometimes quite as becoming. #JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey

If people do but know how to set about it, every comfort may be as well enjoyed in a cottage as in the most spacious dwelling. #JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility

It is a great while since we have had any star-gazing. #JaneAusten #MansfieldPark

A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter. #JaneAusten #Emma

The distance is nothing, when one has a motive; #JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice

It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. #JaneAusten #Persuasion

We must be decided, and without the loss of another minute. Every minute is valuable. #JaneAusten #Persuasion

When you receive this, our guests will be all gone or going; and I shall be left to the comfortable disposal of my time, to ease of mind from the torments of rice puddings and apple dumplings, and probably to regret that I did not take more pains to please them all. #JaneAusten #letters1807

I always buy my own cravats, and am allowed to be an excellent judge; #JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey

When people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them. #JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility

I see him to be an indolent, selfish bon vivant, who must have his palate consulted in everything; who will not stir a finger for the convenience of any one; #JaneAusten #MansfieldPark

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment. #JaneAusten #Emma

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost. #JaneAusten #Persuasion

The men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome. #JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey

Miss Bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed to such language as this. #JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice

Lord, I have been as busy as a bee ever since dinner! #JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility

My gown is to be trimmed everywhere with white ribbon plaited on somehow or other. She says it will look well. I am not sanguine. They trim with white very much. #JaneAusten #letters1813

They must all go to Brighton. That is the place to get husbands. #JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice

They are always acting upon motives of vanity #JaneAusten #MansfieldPark

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left. #JaneAusten #Persuasion

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. #JaneAusten #Emma

Nobody can tell how much I hate quarrelling. #JaneAusten #TheWatsons

His temper is not happy, and something has now occurred to ruffle it in an uncommon degree; #JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey

There was a kind of cold hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathised with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanor, and a general want of understanding. #JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. #JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice

I am grown too old to go out more than three times a week; #JaneAusten #MansfieldPark

He is totally beyond the reach of any sentiment of justice or compassion. #JaneAusten #Persuasion

Well! evil to some is always good to others. #JaneAusten #Emma

This is insufferable! My dearest friend, I was never so enraged before, and must relieve myself by writing to you, who I know will enter into all my feelings. #JaneAusten #LadySusan