“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
“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And is this all?" cried Elizabeth. "I expected at least that the pigs were got into the garden, and here is nothing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“To Elizabeth it appeared that, had her family made an agreement to expose themselves as much as they could during the evening,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“JANE: "Will you tell me how long you have loved him?" ELIZABETH: "I believe it must date it from my first seeing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And then when you go away, you may leave one or two of my sisters behind you; and I dare say I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Such I was, from eight to eight-and-twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.” — 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
