Jane Austen

A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. ↗

— Jane Austen

#people #life

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom. ↗

— Jane Austen

#gloom #past #present #equality

Indeed how can one care for those one has never seen? ↗

— Jane Austen

#love

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.. ↗

— Jane Austen

#family

Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James? ↗

— Jane Austen

#northanger-abbey #love

Charles Adams was an amiable, accomplished & bewitching young Man; of so dazzling a Beauty that none but Eagles could look him in the Face. ↗

— Jane Austen

#beauty

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his. ↗

— Jane Austen

#marriage #marriage

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people. ↗

— Jane Austen

#marriage #marriage

...no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half. ↗

— Jane Austen

#nature

I saw you thro' a telescope and was so struck by your Charms that from that time to this I have not tasted human food. ↗

— Jane Austen

#food