“How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time,* and the changes of the human mind!’ And” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I had never understood her before, and that, as far as related to mind, it had been the creature of my own… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“her mind became cool enough to seek all the comfort that pride and self revenge could give. Henry” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…her mind about as ignorant and uninformed as the female mind at seventeen usually is.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“but still, from family attachment and habit, and thorough excellence of mind, he had loved her, and watched over her from a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who… — 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
“However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is… — 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
“To be distinguished for elegance and accomplishments—the authorised object of their youth—could have had no useful influence that way, no moral effect… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne wondered whether it ever occurred to him now, to question the justness of his own previous opinion as to the universal… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To… — 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
“Could he ever be tolerably happy with Lucy Steele; could he, were his affection for herself out of the question, with his… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“These are the sights, Harriet, to do one good. How trifling they make every thing else appear!---I feel now as if I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great… — 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
To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“and yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give… — Jane AUsten Copy Share Image
“even in the quieter professions, there is a toil and a labour of the mind, if not of the body, which seldom… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth's mind, a more gentle sensation towards the original, that she had ever felt in… — 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
