Jane Austen

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. ↗

— Jane Austen

#attack #cannot #dictated #fast #i

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. ↗

— Jane Austen

#captain-wentworth #love #death

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit. ↗

— Jane Austen

#irony #modesty #musicality #showing-off #music

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. ↗

— Jane Austen

#life

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. ↗

— Jane Austen

#mr-darcy #pride #humor

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it. ↗

— Jane Austen

#confidence

Every savage can dance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? ↗

— Jane Austen

#mountains #prejudice #pride #rocks #men

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pleasure #time #jane-austen

We do not suffer by accident. ↗

— Jane Austen

#suffering #prejudice