Jane Austen
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Jane Austen’s words from her novels and letters ❤️
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When an old lady plays the fool, it is not in the course of nature that she should suffer from it many years.
#JaneAusten #TheWatsons
#JaneAusten #TheWatsons
January 26, 2026 at 11:36 PM
When an old lady plays the fool, it is not in the course of nature that she should suffer from it many years.
#JaneAusten #TheWatsons
#JaneAusten #TheWatsons
She certainly has a little spirit of secrecy, and independence, and nonsense, about her, which I would advise her to get the better of.
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
January 25, 2026 at 9:40 PM
She certainly has a little spirit of secrecy, and independence, and nonsense, about her, which I would advise her to get the better of.
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
January 23, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Presently he took up her scissors and cut off a long lock of her hair, for it was all tumbled down her back; and he kissed it, and folded it up in a piece of white paper; and put it into his pocket-book.
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
January 22, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Presently he took up her scissors and cut off a long lock of her hair, for it was all tumbled down her back; and he kissed it, and folded it up in a piece of white paper; and put it into his pocket-book.
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
How contemptible! Of all things in the world inconstancy is my aversion.
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
January 21, 2026 at 11:49 PM
How contemptible! Of all things in the world inconstancy is my aversion.
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
Only conceive how comfortable they will be! Five hundred a year! I am sure I cannot imagine how they will spend half of it;
#JaneAusten #SensesndSensibility
#JaneAusten #SensesndSensibility
January 17, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Only conceive how comfortable they will be! Five hundred a year! I am sure I cannot imagine how they will spend half of it;
#JaneAusten #SensesndSensibility
#JaneAusten #SensesndSensibility
You are so much used to live alone, that you do not know the value of a companion;
#JaneAusten #Emma
#JaneAusten #Emma
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 PM
You are so much used to live alone, that you do not know the value of a companion;
#JaneAusten #Emma
#JaneAusten #Emma
January 14, 2026 at 10:04 PM
You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
January 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
Well, mother, I have done something for you that you will like. I have been to the theatre, and secured a box for to-morrow night. A’n’t I a good boy?
#JaneAusten #Persuasion
#JaneAusten #Persuasion
January 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Well, mother, I have done something for you that you will like. I have been to the theatre, and secured a box for to-morrow night. A’n’t I a good boy?
#JaneAusten #Persuasion
#JaneAusten #Persuasion
January 9, 2026 at 8:22 PM
I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connexion, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse.
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connexion, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse.
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
When you receive this, our guests will be all gone or going; and I shall be left to the comfortable disposal of my time, to ease of mind from the torments of rice puddings and apple dumplings, and probably to regret that I did not take more pains to please them all.
#JaneAusten #letters1807
#JaneAusten #letters1807
January 5, 2026 at 10:22 PM
When you receive this, our guests will be all gone or going; and I shall be left to the comfortable disposal of my time, to ease of mind from the torments of rice puddings and apple dumplings, and probably to regret that I did not take more pains to please them all.
#JaneAusten #letters1807
#JaneAusten #letters1807
Her passion for ancient edifices was next in degree to her passion for Henry Tilney
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
January 5, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Her passion for ancient edifices was next in degree to her passion for Henry Tilney
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
Has your newspaper given a sad story of a Mrs. Middleton, wife of a farmer in Yorkshire, her sister, and servant, being almost frozen to death in the late weather, her little child quite so?
#JaneAusten #lettersJan1809
#JaneAusten #lettersJan1809
January 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Has your newspaper given a sad story of a Mrs. Middleton, wife of a farmer in Yorkshire, her sister, and servant, being almost frozen to death in the late weather, her little child quite so?
#JaneAusten #lettersJan1809
#JaneAusten #lettersJan1809
It is so cold, so very cold—and looks and feels so very much like snow, that if it were to any other place or with any other party, I should really try not to go out to-day.
#JaneAusten #Emma
#JaneAusten #Emma
January 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM
It is so cold, so very cold—and looks and feels so very much like snow, that if it were to any other place or with any other party, I should really try not to go out to-day.
#JaneAusten #Emma
#JaneAusten #Emma
I am going to Gretna Green, and if you cannot guess with who, I shall think you a simpleton, for there is but one man in the world I love, and he is an angel.
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
January 1, 2026 at 10:24 PM
I am going to Gretna Green, and if you cannot guess with who, I shall think you a simpleton, for there is but one man in the world I love, and he is an angel.
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
December 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
December 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
She has been indisposed all day, and we have persuaded her to go to bed.
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
December 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
She has been indisposed all day, and we have persuaded her to go to bed.
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
I am very grand indeed; I had the dignity of dropping out my mother's laudanum last night. I carry about the keys of the wine and closet, and twice since I began this letter have had orders to give in the kitchen.
#JaneAusten #Letters1798
#JaneAusten #Letters1798
December 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I am very grand indeed; I had the dignity of dropping out my mother's laudanum last night. I carry about the keys of the wine and closet, and twice since I began this letter have had orders to give in the kitchen.
#JaneAusten #Letters1798
#JaneAusten #Letters1798
How tired you must be after your journey! You must go to bed early, my dear—and I recommend a little gruel to you before you go.
#JaneAusten #Emma
#JaneAusten #Emma
December 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
How tired you must be after your journey! You must go to bed early, my dear—and I recommend a little gruel to you before you go.
#JaneAusten #Emma
#JaneAusten #Emma
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
December 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Morning visits are never fair by women at her time of life, who make themselves up so little.
#JaneAusten #Persuasion
#JaneAusten #Persuasion
December 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Morning visits are never fair by women at her time of life, who make themselves up so little.
#JaneAusten #Persuasion
#JaneAusten #Persuasion