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
“She talked to her, listened to her, read to her; and the tranquillity of such evenings, her perfect security in such a… — 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
“She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.” — 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
“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
