Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
Jane Austen
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Lives
Letters
Great
Rain
Going
Begin
Never
Lived
Think
Office
Thinking
Worth
Post
Age
Posts
Point
Charm
More quotes by Jane Austen
Everything nourishes what is strong already
Jane Austen
A Woman never looks better than on horseback
Jane Austen
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference? - Elizabeth Bennet
Jane Austen
I can recollect nothing more to say at present perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
Jane Austen
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
Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.
Jane Austen
Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.
Jane Austen
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy
Jane Austen
No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.
Jane Austen
Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.
Jane Austen
The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
Jane Austen
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.
Jane Austen
Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration but it might, probably must, end in love with some
Jane Austen
But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
Jane Austen
I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.
Jane Austen
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
Jane Austen
Now be sincere did you admire me for my impertinence? For the liveliness of your mind, I did.
Jane Austen
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
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Jane Austen
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