Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Every thing was said that could encourage, every encouragement received with grateful joy, and the gentlemen parted the best of friends.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Though she liked him for his attentions, and thought them all, whether in friendship, admiration, or playfulness, extremely judicious, they were not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Precious as was the company of her daughter to her, she desired nothing so much as to give up its constant enjoyment… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Oh! if that is all, I have a very poor opinion of young men who live in Derbyshire; and their intimate friends… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“This little bag I hope will prove To be not vainly made-- For, if you should a needle want It will afford… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a… — 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
