An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Consideration and Esteem surely follow command of Language as Admiration waits on Beauty” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Charles Adams was an amiable, accomplished & bewitching young Man; of so dazzling a Beauty that none but Eagles could look him… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters,” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She did not really like her. She would not be in a hurry to find fault, but she suspected that there was… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“but, had I a place to new fashion, I should not put myself into the hands of an improver. I would rather… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“To be distinguished for elegance and accomplishments—the authorised object of their youth—could have had no useful influence that way, no moral effect… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently characteristic. Bingley had never met with more pleasant people or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are a very warm friend to Mr. Martin; but, as I said before, are unjust to Harriet. ... Waiving that point,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Miss Bates…had never boasted either beauty or cleverness. Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“At ten, she was moreover noisy and wild, hated confinement and cleanliness and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Had Elizabeth’s opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing opinion of conjugal felicity… — 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
