Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

'My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, 'what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?' #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

'We have not quite determined how far it shall carry us,' said Mrs Gardiner, 'but, perhaps, to the Lakes.' No scheme could have been more agreeable to Elizabeth, and her acceptance of the invitation was most ready and grateful. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice JaneAusten

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever. MAAN 2.3 #ShakespeareSunday

These violent delights have violent ends. RJ 2.6 #ShakespeareSunday

A man, young lady! lady, such a man As all the world--why, he's a man of wax. RJ 1.5 #ShakespeareSunday

O, what a beast was I to chide at him! RJ 3.2 #ShakespeareSunday

JULIET But if thou mean'st not well, I do beseech thee-- Nurse [Within] Madam! JULIET By and by, I come:-- To cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief. RJ 2.2 #ShakespeareSunday

Verona's summer hath not such a flower. RJ 1.3 #ShakespeareSunday

Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. RJ 1.5 #ShakespeareSunday

I'll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. RJ 1.5 #ShakespeareSunday

I'll look to like, if looking liking move. RJ 1.3 #ShakespeareSunday

Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your disposition to be married? RJ 1.3 #ShakespeareSunday

Let two more summers wither in their pride, Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride. RJ 1.2 #ShakespeareSunday

O brawling love! O loving hate! RJ 1.1 #ShakespeareSunday

Out of her favour, where I am in love. RJ 1.1 #ShakespeareSunday

#OTD 1811 Lydia Bennet eloped with Mr Wickham 😊 #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen pemberley.com/janeinfo/ppchr…

Before they were separated by the conclusion of the play, she had the unexpected happiness of an invitation to accompany her uncle and aunt in a tour of pleasure which they proposed taking in the summer. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of disappointment. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the gray flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side. Happy Birthday, #EmilyBrontë! Born #OTD 1818

Oh! if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends who live in Hertfordshire are not much better. I am sick of them all. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

I should be sorry, you know, to think ill of a young man who has lived so long in Derbyshire. #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

'If she does not object to it, why should we?' 'Her not objecting, does not justify him. It only shews her being deficient in something herself -- sense or feeling.' #JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice Jane Austen

His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world 'This was a man!' JC 5.5 #ShakespeareSunday

This is my birth-day. JC 5.1 #ShakespeareSunday

When I spoke that, I was ill-temper'd too. JC 4.3 #ShakespeareSunday

O ye gods, ye gods! must I endure all this? JC 4.3 #ShakespeareSunday

All his faults observed, Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote, To cast into my teeth. JC 4.3 #ShakespeareSunday

With courtesy and with respect enough; But not with such familiar instances, Nor with such free and friendly conference, As he hath used of old. JC 4.2 #ShakespeareSunday

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood. JC 3.2 #ShakespeareSunday