1813 · Skopia

Showing 28 works across all media from 1813

Fiction · Romance

Pride and Prejudice

1813 · 352 pages

Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy dislike each other on sight and spend the novel being wrong. Austen wrote conversation better than anyone in English, and readers return to it their whole lives.

★ 9.5

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 7.8

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

Thomas Jefferson

1813

★ 6.2

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 5.6

Personal journal

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation),—sleep, eating, and swilling—buttoning and unbuttoning—how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.

1813

★ 5.3

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.9

The Adoration of the Magi

Religious painting · Romanticism

The Adoration of the Magi

Friedrich Overbeck

1813 · Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Overbeck and the Nazarenes lived almost as monks in Rome and painted deliberately like the Italians before Raphael. This is the program.

★ 4.2

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.0

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.0

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 4.0

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 3.9

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 3.9

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Thomas Jefferson

1813

★ 3.9

I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

1813

★ 3.8

You and I, ought not to die, before We have explained ourselves to each other.

1813

★ 3.7

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.4

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.4

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.4

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.3

There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.3

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Pride and Prejudice · 1813

★ 2.2

The fundamental Article of my political Creed is, that Despotism, or unlimited Sovereignty, or absolute Power is the same in a Majority of a popular Assembly, and Aristocratical Counsel, an Oligarchical Junto and a Single Emperor.

1813

★ 1.9

Look back, and smile at perils past!

Sir Walter Scott

1813

★ 1.9

Religious literature

Whether we consider the manual industry of the poor, or the intellectual exertions of the superior classes, we shall find that diligent occupation, if not criminally perverted from its end, is at once the instrument of virtue and the secret of happiness. Man cannot be safely trusted with a life of leisure.

1813

★ 1.9

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automation.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Queen Mab · 1813

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

Our country abounds in the necessaries, the arts, and the comforts of life. A general prosperity is visible in the public countenance.

Second Inaugural Address of James Madison · 1813

★ 1.3

Speech · Political speech

To render the war short and its success sure, animated and systematic exertions alone are necessary, and the success of our arms now may long preserve our country from the necessity of another resort to them.

Second Inaugural Address of James Madison · 1813

★ 1.2

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king: and... You must hate "a Frenchman as you hate the devil."

1813

★ 1.1