Want a Jane Austen quote delivered to you every day? There's an app for that

A new app developed by Bath’s Jane Austen Centre promises to make your day a little better by delivering one quote a day

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“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” Good advice for a bad day at the office, perhaps? Jane Austen’s tetchy words to her sister Cassandra are among many quotable lines that seem just as applicable to the modern world as to the society Austen inhabited more than two hundred years ago.

With that in mind, the Jane Austen Centre in Bath has produced an app providing a daily dose of Austen wisdom, which can be custom-timed to land on your phone whenever you like – “when you have your morning coffee or when you’re on the bus going home”. The Jane Austen Daily Quote app is available now in both major app stores.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. —from Emma (1815)

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. — from Pride and Prejudice (1813)

For what do we live, but to make sport of our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? — from Pride and Prejudice (1813)

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — from Mansfield Park (1814)

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! — from Persuasion (1817)

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