The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“First of all, he asked Miss Lucas. I was so vexed to see him stand up with her! But, however, he did… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“When he was present she had no eyes for any one else. Every thing he did, was right. Every thing he said,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Indeed, sir, I have not the least intention of dancing. I en-treat you not to suppose that I moved this way in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If he had had any compassion for me," cried her husband impatiently, "he would not have danced half so much! For God's… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Her partner now drew near, and said, "That gentleman would have put me out of patience, had he stayed with you half… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I should like balls infinitely better,' she replied, 'if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Indeed, sir, I have not the least intention of dancing. I entreat you not to suppose that I moved this way in… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“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 Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
