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.
— Persuasion
Jane Austen was an English writer known for her six novels, which interpret, critique and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her plots often explore women's dependence on marriage for social standing and economic security, and her social commentary, realism, wit and irony have earned her lasting critical acclaim.
She wrote major novels before the age of 22 but was not published until she was 35. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma were published anonymously and were moderate successes, but they did not bring her public fame in her lifetime. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published after her death in 1817. Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility are her most quoted works in our library.
She wrote major novels before the age of 22 but was not published until she was 35. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma were published anonymously and were moderate successes, but they did not bring her public fame in her lifetime. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published after her death in 1817. Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility are her most quoted works in our library.
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
— Pride and Prejudice
A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
— Mansfield Park
She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.
— Emma
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
— Sense and Sensibility
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
— Persuasion
— Pride and Prejudice
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
— Emma
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
— Persuasion
We are all fools in love
— Pride and Prejudice
I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.
— Mansfield Park
Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.
— Emma
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
— Emma
Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.
— Emma
I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.
— Lady Susan
I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong.
— MANSFIELD PARK By Jane Austen (illustrated) Original Version: 1814 (illustrated) Original Version By Jane Austen
What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
— Emma
I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.
— Pride and Prejudice
In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony...
— Sense and Sensibility
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
— Persuasion
You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.
— Emma
Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.
— Sense and Sensibility
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
— Emma
Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.
— Mansfield Park