I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There is hardly any personal defect", replied Anne, "which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to".” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Expect a most agreeable letter, for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say), there shall be no check… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in… — 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
“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
