I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity… — 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
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly… — 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
