Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1775 Death: July 18, 1817
I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be….
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation..
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I sh….
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other..
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help..
To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last..
it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa..
There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who ….
Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at leas….
Women are the only correspondents to be depended on..
The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be..
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not..
If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient..
I am excessively diverted..
Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another..
It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation..
Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humb….
Time did not compose her..
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainte….
How can I dispose of myself with it?.
Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business..