A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
…one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He must tell his own story.' 'But he will tell only half of it.' 'A quarter would be enough.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — 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
I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for… — 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
“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
