My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mary was the only daughter who remained at home; and she was necessarily drawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by Mrs. Bennet's… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If he had had any compassion for me," cried her husband impatiently, "he would not have danced half so much! For God's… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mary was the only daughter who remained at home; and she was necessarily drawn from the pursuit of accomplishments by Mrs. Bennet's… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters. With… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The Longbourn party were the last of all the company to depart, and, by a manoeuvre of Mrs. Bennet, had to wait… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched; and already had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to… — 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
