Jane Austen
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Jane Austen’s words from her novels and letters ❤️
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December 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Ay, it is a fine thing to be young and handsome. Well! I was young once, but I never was very handsome—worse luck for me.
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
December 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Ay, it is a fine thing to be young and handsome. Well! I was young once, but I never was very handsome—worse luck for me.
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#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
December 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
She is all gentleness and mildness when anybody is by; but she is a little fretful and perverse among ourselves.
#JaneAusten #TheWatsons
#JaneAusten #TheWatsons
December 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
She is all gentleness and mildness when anybody is by; but she is a little fretful and perverse among ourselves.
#JaneAusten #TheWatsons
#JaneAusten #TheWatsons
Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil take the rest, say I.
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil take the rest, say I.
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
“When I am in the country,” he replied, “I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town, it is pretty much the same. They have each their advantages, and I can be equally happy in either.”
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
December 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
“When I am in the country,” he replied, “I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town, it is pretty much the same. They have each their advantages, and I can be equally happy in either.”
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#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
She was not disturbed by any alarm for his safety, or solicitude for his comfort, being one of those persons who think nothing can be dangerous, or difficult, or fatiguing to anybody but themselves.
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
She was not disturbed by any alarm for his safety, or solicitude for his comfort, being one of those persons who think nothing can be dangerous, or difficult, or fatiguing to anybody but themselves.
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else.
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#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else.
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#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
I am monstrous glad to see you—sorry I could not come before—beg your pardon, but I have been forced to look about me a little, and settle my matters;
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I am monstrous glad to see you—sorry I could not come before—beg your pardon, but I have been forced to look about me a little, and settle my matters;
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#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be.
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be.
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
I send you five one-pound notes, for fear you should be distressed for little money.
#JaneAusten #letters1815
#JaneAusten #letters1815
November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I send you five one-pound notes, for fear you should be distressed for little money.
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#JaneAusten #letters1815
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
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#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
November 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
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#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
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;
#JaneAusten #Emma
#JaneAusten #Emma
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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;
#JaneAusten #Emma
#JaneAusten #Emma
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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
#JaneAusten #letters1796
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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
#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.
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#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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.
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#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
November 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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
#JaneAusten #letter1813
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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
#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
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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
#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
#JaneAusten #Emma
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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
#JaneAusten #Emma