“Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But perseverance in humility of conduct and messages, in self-condemnation for Robert’s offence, and gratitude for the unkindness she was treated with,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.… — 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
“Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude ... have any possible claim on me.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Gratitude- not only for once loving her, but loving her still, enough to forgive...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Every thing was said that could encourage, every encouragement received with grateful joy, and the gentlemen parted the best of friends.” — 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
![“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37a/jane-austen-39_marriage_everybody-is-taken-in-at-some-period-or_7175.jpg)
