This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But do not be cast down. Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“No," said he, smiling, "that is no subject of regret at all. I have no pleasure in seeing my friends, unless I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...I cannot say that I regret my comparative insignificance, Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Even their mother missed them—and how much more their tender-hearted cousin, who wandered about the house, and thought of them, and felt… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But it is fortunate,'' thought she, ''that I have something to wish for. Were the whole arrangement complete, my disappointment would be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Having never fancied herself in love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and from her age and disposition,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Many were the tears shed by them in their last adieus to a place so much beloved. "Dear, dear Norland!" said Marianne,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Dear, dear Norland!" said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last evening of their being there; "when shall… — 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
