Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was foolish, it was wrong, to take so active a part in bringing any two people together.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning. — 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
