She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else, it must be in my… — 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
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
Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world,… — 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
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as… — 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
“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
