Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. — 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
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are… — 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
