And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Good company requires only birth, manners and education and, with regard to education, I'm afraid it is not very particular” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“my idea of good company.. is the company of clever, well-informed people. who have a great deal of conversation.” — 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
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Aye, a very bad business indeed. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You must be the best judge of your own happiness. If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth was excessively disappointed...but it was her business to be satisfied — and certainly her temper to be happy; and all was… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Can you, in short, be prevailed on to quit this scene of public triumph and oblige your friend Eleanor with your company… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“In marriage especially. With all due respect to such of the present company as chance to be married, my dear Mrs. Grant,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Precious as was the company of her daughter to her, she desired nothing so much as to give up its constant enjoyment… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The Longbourn party were the last of all the company to depart, and, by a manoeuvre of Mrs. Bennet, had to wait… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But neither the business alleged, nor the magnificent compliment, could win Catherine from thinking that some very different object must occasion so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit… — 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
