Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

Jane Austen

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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

Jane Austen

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She considered that there were misfortunes of a much greater magnitude than the loss of a ball experienced every day by some part of mortality, and that the time might come when she would herself look back with wonder and perhaps envy on her having known no greater vexation.

Jane Austen

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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

Jane Austen

Mots clés joy-of-reading

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never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's...

Jane Austen

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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Jane Austen

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but, had I a place to new fashion, I should not put myself into the hands of an improver. I would rather have an inferior degree of beauty, of my own choice, and acquired progressively. I would rather abide by my own blunders than by his.

Jane Austen

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I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

Jane Austen

Mots clés jane-austen emma

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You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

-Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen

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From politics, it was an easy step to silence

Jane Austen

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