A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.

— Jane Austen

--As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females." --"I do assure you, sir, that I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere.

— Jane Austen

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

— Jane Austen

... a whole day’s tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

— Jane Austen

A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

— Jane Austen

Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half dressed, was kneeling against one of the window-seats for the sake of all the little light she could command from it, and writing as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her.

— Jane Austen

Between Barton and Delayed, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable, that though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.

— Jane Austen

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— Jane Austen

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

— Jane Austen

Books--oh! No. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings."" I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least Ben want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

— Jane Austen