“...by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There was that constant communication which strong family affection would dictate; and though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“but still, from family attachment and habit, and thorough excellence of mind, he had loved her, and watched over her from a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And yet two thousand a year is a very moderate income,” said Marianne. “A family cannot well be maintained on a smaller.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Any difficulties posed by lack of rooms, space or even beds should never be permitted to interfere with the demands of hospitality… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elinor placed all that was astonishing in this way of acting to his mother's account; and it was happy for her that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I do not think any young woman has a right to make a choice that may be disagreeable and inconvenient to the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There was a numerous family; but the only two grown up, excepting Charles, were Henrietta and Louisa, young ladies of nineteen and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was some months before Sir Thomas’s consent could be received; but in the mean while, as no one felt a doubt… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“What a delightful library you have at Pemberley, Mr. Darcy!” “It ought to be good,” he replied, “it has been the work… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her family cares, is still… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“To Elizabeth it appeared that, had her family made an agreement to expose themselves as much as they could during the evening,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It makes me very nervous and poorly,to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“excellent health herself. A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The contempt which she had, very early in their acquaintance, felt for her daughter-in-law, was very much increased by the farther knowledge… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared… — Jane Austen Copy Share
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share
