A new app developed by Bath’s Jane Austen Centre promises to make your life a little better by sending you daily quotes

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

“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.

“People are always interested in her quotes. They’re always witty, lively, succint and very perceptive - and they do often describe people’s characters really well,” said David Baldock, the centre’s director. As well as alerting readers to Austen’s intelligence and charm, the app will also, Baldock hopes, help to promote the museum, its online store and its digital magazine.

“The Jane Austen Daily quote” is loaded with 365 quotes, one for each day of the year. The plan is to update it with 365 new ones in a year’s time. Three years ago, the centre experimented with launching a similar app, only available to iOS users, and it was downloaded by around 9,000 without any promotion, explained Baldock. Here are some of the quotes in the app:

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)

Whose quotes would you most love to pop up on your devices (and your life) on a daily basis? Let us know in the comments

