“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits in which it was difficult to determine whether pleasure or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I am not one of those young ladies who are so daring to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better:… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness. So much the better. I certainly will not persuade myself… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such ladies there are) who are so daring… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do.” — 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
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