Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Jane Austen

@janeaustenlit.bsky.social

1.3K followers 430 following 300 posts

Jane Austen’s words from her novels and letters ❤️

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · Nov 16

Pray come in; do come in. You will find some friends here.
#JaneAusten #Emma

2 19 98

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 4h

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

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 1d

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

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 2d

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

3 25

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 3d

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

1 25

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 4d

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

5 24

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 5d

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

1 7

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 7d

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

1 1 10

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 8d

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

2 2 36

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 9d

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

1 3 31

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 10d

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

2 20

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 11d

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

1 15

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 12d

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

1 29

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 13d

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

1 3 27

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 14d

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

1 20

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 17d

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

3 26

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 18d

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

3 20

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 20d

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

1 8

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 22d

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

1 20

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 23d

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

3 22

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 24d

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

3 30

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 26d

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

2 2 32

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 27d

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

4 24

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 28d

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

1 13

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 29d

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

1 2 32

Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · Sep 15

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Janeites unite: Austen festival in Bath celebrates 250th anniversary of author’s birth

The annual festival, now the largest and longest-running of its kind, first took place in 2001 and has since grown to a 10-day programme drawing thousands of visitors from around the world

www.theguardian.com

4 34