“His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Absence with the conviction probably of her indifference, had produced this very natural and desirable effect.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I was simple enough to think, that because my faith was plighted to another, there could be no danger in my being… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies… — 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