They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high… — 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
My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was the desire of appearing superior to other people. The motive was too common to be wondered at.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it… — 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
You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just… — 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