336 Quotes About Jane-austen

The most striking aspect of Jane's adult letters is their defensiveness. They lack tenderness towards herself as much as towards others ... They are the letters of someone who does not open her heart'. They are also, perhaps, the letters of someone who doesn't dare open her heart, for fear of what she might find there.

Her not objecting does not justify him. It only shows her being deficient in something herself--sense or feeling.

I am not one of those who neglect the reigning to bow to the rising sun.

I wish nature had made such hearts as yours more common.

Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

her affection would be his forever.

his feelings as to a first, strong attachment; sentences begun which he could not finish, his half averted eyes and more than half expressive glance; all, all declared that he had a heart returning to her at least; that anger, resentment, avoidance, were no more; and that they were succeeded, not merely by friendship or regard, but by the tenderness of the past. Yes, some share of the tenderness of the past. she could not contemplate the change as implying less. He must love her.

and the more I saw, the more I found to admire.

but time makes many changes.