“The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. -Sense and Sensibility” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks.' 'I am sorry for that. At her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to… — 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
“Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby.… — 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
