Catharine and Other Writings Quotes

“[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Catharine and Other Writings

“…for what after all is Youth and Beauty?”
― Jane Austen, Catharine and Other Writings

“Oh! what a silly Thing is Woman! How vain, how unreasonable!”
― Jane Austen, Catharine and Other Writings

“…but her Letters were always unsatisfactory, and though she did not openly avow her feelings, yet every line proved her to be Unhappy.”
― Jane Austen, Catharine and Other Writings

“To Miss Cooper
Cousin,
Conscious of the Charming Character which in every Country, and every Clime in Christendom is Cried, Concerning you, with Caution and Care I Commend to your Charitable Criticism this Clever Collection of Curious Comments, which have been Carefully Culled, Collected and Classed by your Comical Cousin
The Author”
― Jane Austen, Catharine and Other Writings

“…yet Habit had so strengthened the idea which Fancy had first suggested…”
― Jane Austen, Catharine and Other Writings

“She considered that there were misfortunes of a much greater magnitude than the loss of a ball experienced every day by some part of mortality, and that the time might come when she would herself look back with wonder and perhaps envy on her having known no greater vexation.”
― Jane Austen, Catharine and Other Writings