Jane Austen

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior. ↗

— Jane Austen

#luck #marriage #marriage

Lady Middleton resigned herself... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every day. ↗

— Jane Austen

#nagging #marriage

She began to feel that she had not yet gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment, which the progress of time and variation of circumstances occasion in this world of changes. ↗

— Jane Austen

#changes #time #time-passing #change

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it. ↗

— Jane Austen

#people #society #life

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. ↗

— Jane Austen

#education #life #mr-darcy #people #society

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love. ↗

— Jane Austen

#romance #love

El que ella no se lo reproche, no lo justifica a él. Solo demuestra que ella carece de algo, bien de prudencia, bien de sentimiento. ↗

— Jane Austen

#novel #love

Ah! what could we do but what we did! We sighed and fainted on the Sofa. ↗

— Jane Austen

#friendship

Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain. ↗

— Jane Austen

#humour #wickham #equality

Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children. ↗

— Jane Austen

#kids #motherhood #change