"There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences."
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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?"
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be."
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Emma by Jane Austen
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
She had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them.
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Persuasion by Jane Austen
"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."
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Persuasion by Jane Austen
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
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Persuasion by Jane Austen
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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Persuasion by Jane Austen
"What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!"
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Persuasion by Jane Austen