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Jane Austen’s words from her novels and letters ❤️
As to the mode of our travelling to town, I want to go in a stage-coach, but Frank will not let me.
#JaneAusten #letters1796
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I always buy my own cravats, and am allowed to be an excellent judge;
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
October 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
My gown is to be trimmed everywhere with white ribbon plaited on somehow or other. She says it will look well. I am not sanguine. They trim with white very much.
#JaneAusten #letters1813
October 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
They must all go to Brighton. That is the place to get husbands.
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
October 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I could do very well single for my own part; a little company, and a pleasant ball now and then, would be enough for me, if one could be young forever;
#JaneAusten #TheWatsons
August 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
His spirits rose with the very sight of the sea
#Sanditon #JaneAusten
July 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I hope we shall always be great friends.
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
July 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It had been excessively hot the whole day…
#JaneAusten #letters1811
June 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A woman can never be too fine while she is all in white.
#JaneAusten #MansfieldPark
(Raeburn, portrait of Eleanor Urquhart 1793)
June 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I need not tell you how much I miss him, how perpetually he is in my thoughts.
#JaneAusten #LadySusan
May 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Where shall I begin? Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
#JaneAusten #letters #June1808
May 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I wear nothing but purple now: I know I look hideous in it, but no matter—it is your dear brother's favourite colour.
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
May 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Come, and eat my strawberries. They are ripening fast.
#JaneAusten #Emma
May 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Company is always cheerful
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
May 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
As to the mode of our travelling to town, I want to go in a stage-coach, but Frank will not let me.
#JaneAusten #letters1796
May 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I assure you that I dread the idea of going to Brighton as much as you do, but I am not without hopes that something may happen to prevent it.
#JaneAusten #letters #1799
May 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Open carriages are nasty things. A clean gown is not five minutes' wear in them. You are splashed getting in and getting out; and the wind takes your hair and your bonnet in every direction. I hate an open carriage myself.
#JaneAusten #NorthangerAbbey
April 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It soon appeared that London was not the place for her. She could not endure its noise. Her nerves were under continual irritation and suffering;
#JaneAusten #Emma
February 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
1st published 28 January 1813
January 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
On Friday evening we had some very blowing weather,—from six to nine; I think we never heard it worse, even here.
#JaneAusten #Letters1808
January 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
You have a house in town, I conclude?
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
January 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Our party went off extremely well. There were many solicitudes, alarms, and vexations beforehand, of course, but at last everything was quite right.
#JaneAusten #Letters
December 31, 2024 at 8:52 PM
December 25, 2024 at 3:44 PM
At Christmas every body invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather.
#JaneAusten #Emma
December 23, 2024 at 4:41 PM
People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking.
#JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
November 17, 2024 at 2:23 PM