Jane Austen

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! ↗

— Jane Austen

#prejudice

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. ↗

— Jane Austen

#inspirational

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. ↗

— Jane Austen

#inspirational

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else. ↗

— Jane Austen

#love

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. ↗

— Jane Austen

#allow #anything #been #books #degree

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death. ↗

— Jane Austen

#death

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. ↗

— Jane Austen

#every man #man #neighborhood #spies #surrounded

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. ↗

— Jane Austen

#humor

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both. ↗

— Jane Austen

#marianne-dashwood #sense-sensibility #music

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults. ↗

— Jane Austen

#love