“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Precious as was the company of her daughter to her, she desired nothing so much as to give up its constant enjoyment… — 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
“With all dear Emma's little faults, she is an excellent creature. Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He is blinded and nothing will open his eyes,nothing can,after having had truths so long before him in vain.--He will marry her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You speak as if you envied him." "And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Though she liked him for his attentions, and thought them all, whether in friendship, admiration, or playfulness, extremely judicious, they were not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” ― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You feel, I suppose, that, in losing Isabella, you lose half yourself: you feel a void in your heart which nothing else… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Instead of receiving any such letter of excuse from his friend, as Elizabeth half expected Mr. Bingley to do, he was able… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must be more in want of a friend, or an agreeable companion, than I have yet been, to take the trouble… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Can you, in short, be prevailed on to quit this scene of public triumph and oblige your friend Eleanor with your company… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are fond of history! And so are Mr. Allen and my father; and I have two brothers who do not dislike… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Any difficulties posed by lack of rooms, space or even beds should never be permitted to interfere with the demands of hospitality… — 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
