Jane Austen

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient read more

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever read more

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.