“General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Then, my dear, you may have the advantage of your friend, and introduce Mr. Bingley to her.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“At Christmas every body invites their friends and thinks little of even the worst weather.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” ― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit… To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of… — 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
“I felt that I admired you, but I told myself it was only friendship; and till I began to make comparisons between… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must be more in want of a friend, or an agreeable companion, than I have yet been, to take the trouble… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Sally, or rather Sarah (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Instead of receiving any such letter of excuse from his friend, as Elizabeth half expected Mr. Bingley to do, he was able… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“With all dear Emma's little faults, she is an excellent creature. Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The event had every promise of happiness for her friend. Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable character, easy fortune, suitable age,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Every thing was a friend, or bore her thoughts to a friend; and though there had been sometimes much of suffering to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Can you, in short, be prevailed on to quit this scene of public triumph and oblige your friend Eleanor with your company… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are fond of history! And so are Mr. Allen and my father; and I have two brothers who do not dislike… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You feel, I suppose, that, in losing Isabella, you lose half yourself: you feel a void in your heart which nothing else… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are a very warm friend to Mr. Martin; but, as I said before, are unjust to Harriet. ... Waiving that point,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He is blinded and nothing will open his eyes,nothing can,after having had truths so long before him in vain.--He will marry her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You speak as if you envied him." "And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. — 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
