Quote

She attracted him more than he liked.

Jane Austen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Attracted
Liked

More quotes by Jane Austen

Image
I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
Jane Austen
Image
And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.
Jane Austen
Image
I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.
Jane Austen
Image
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
Jane Austen
Image
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Jane Austen
Image
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
Jane Austen
Image
people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them
Jane Austen
Image
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen
Image
Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing.
Jane Austen
Image
To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
Jane Austen
Image
You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.
Jane Austen
Image
I wish I might take this for a compliment but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.
Jane Austen
Image
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.
Jane Austen
Image
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
Image
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.
Jane Austen
Image
Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Jane Austen
Image
How can I dispose of myself with it?
Jane Austen
Image
I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.
Jane Austen
Image
Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.
Jane Austen
Image
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
Jane Austen