Reasons to be happy.

1 week ago (4 notes)

#jane austen
#quote
#literature
#love
#moments
#time

"There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time."

Jane Austen

1 week ago (1 note)

#jane austen
#emma
#literature
#quote
#happiness
#indulgence

"Happiness must preclude false indulgence."

Jane Austen, Emma

1 week ago (4 notes)

#jane austen
#pride and prejudice
#literature
#quote

"And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner."

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

1 week ago (1 note)

#jane austen
#emma
#literature
#quote
#happiness
#memory

"Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common."

Jane Austen, Emma

1 week ago (5 notes)

#jane austen
#mansfield park
#quote
#literature

"If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow."

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

2 weeks ago (10 notes)

#jane austen
#persuasion
#literature
#quote
#love
#hearts
#feelings
#unison

"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison."

Jane Austen, Persuasion

2 weeks ago (7 notes)

#jane austen
#pride and prejudice
#quote
#literature
#laugh
#wise

"I dearly love a laugh…I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good."

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

2 weeks ago (2 notes)

#jane austen
#sense and sensibility
#quote
#literature
#opinions

"At my time of life, opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything that will change them."

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

2 weeks ago (3 notes)

#jane austen
#mansfield park
#quote
#literature
#shade
#refreshment
#perfect
#verdure
#nature

"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

2 weeks ago (11 notes)

#jane austen
#northanger abbey
#quote
#literature

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

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

2 weeks ago (2 notes)

#jane austen
#mansfield park
#quote
#literature
#men
#women
#relationships

"A most fortunate man he is to attach himself to such a creature—to a woman who, firm as a rock in her own principles, has a gentleness of character so well adapted to recommend them. He has chosen his partner, indeed, with rare felicity."

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

3 weeks ago (2 notes)

#jane austen
#lady susan
#quote
#literature

"One is apt, I believe, to connect assurance of manner with coquetry, and to expect that an impudent address will naturally attend an impudent mind."

Jane Austen, Lady Susan

3 weeks ago (1 note)

#jane austen
#emma
#literature
#quote
#single
#boys
#girls

"A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable, old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else."

Jane Austen, Emma

3 weeks ago (2 notes)

#jane austen
#persuasion
#quote
#literature
#husband
#wife
#opposition
#vain

"Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain."

Jane Austen, Persuasion

3 weeks ago (2 notes)

#jane austen
#mansfield park
#literature
#quote
#opinions

"I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct."

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park