But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. - Jane Austen . View more images...
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. - Jane Austen. View more images...
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. - Jane Austen . View more images...
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. - Jane Austen. View more images...
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. - Jane Austen. View more images...
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. - Jane Austen. View more images...
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. - Jane Austen . View more images...
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. - Jane Austen . View more images...
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. - Jane Austen. View more images...
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. - Jane Austen . View more images...
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. - Jane Austen. View more images...
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love. - Jane Austen. View more images...
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. - Jane Austen. View more images...
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. - Jane Austen. View more images...
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. - Jane Austen. View more images...