If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They were gone, she hoped, to be happy, however oddly constructed such happiness might seem; as for herself, she was left with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The darling wish of his sisters was then gratified; he bought an estate in a neighbouring county to Derbyshire, and Jane and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elinor, for shame!" said Marianne, "money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure… — 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
“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You must be the best judge of your own happiness. If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne could not immediately fall into a quotation again. The sweet scenes of autumn were for a while put by - unless… — 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
