“Do you compare your conduct with his?" "No. I compare it with what it ought to have been; I compare it with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There was that constant communication which strong family affection would dictate; and though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And then when you go away, you may leave one or two of my sisters behind you; and I dare say I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“So Lizzy,' said he one day, 'your sister is crossed in love I find. I congratulate her. Next to being married, a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Their resemblance in good principles and good sense, in disposition and manner of thinking, would probably have been sufficient to unite them… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They have none of them much to recommend them", replied he: "they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne always contemplated them as some of the happiest creatures of her acquaintance; but still, saved as we all are, by some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And now, Henry," said Miss Tilney, "that you have made us understand each other, you may as well make Miss Morland understand… — 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
