Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“As soon as they were gone, Elizabeth walked out to recover her spirits; or in other words, to dwell without interruption on… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind--in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And she leaned back in the corner, to indulge her murmurs, or to reason them away; probably a little of both—such being… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to… — 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
Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Miss Bertram could now speak with decided information of what she had known nothing about,” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend… — 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 Image
“Colonel Brandon alone, of all the party, heard her without being in raptures. He paid her only the compliment of attention;” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heart-felt delight, diffused over his… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.” — 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
“Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp the perfection of her felicity.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Colonel Brandon alone, of all the party, heard her without being in raptures. He paid her only the compliment of attention. from… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Every thing was safe enough, and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…but her Letters were always unsatisfactory, and though she did not openly avow her feelings, yet every line proved her to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If her case was pitiable, his was hopeless. His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? — 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
