“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
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Northanger Abbey
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Sense and Sensibility
“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
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Persuasion
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Pride and Prejudice
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Emma
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Pride and Prejudice
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
― Northanger Abbey
“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.”
― Emma
“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
– Jane Austen, 1775-2025
CIRENCESTER’s adventurous independent Barn Theatre opens the 2025 season with a new comedy featuring a casting director facing the challenge of casting an actor for the world’s most famous spy.
Jordan Waller’s A Role to Die For, running from 30th January to 15th March, stars Olivier Award-winner Janie Dee, and is directed by another Olivier winner, Derek Bond.