“The I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.” — 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
We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...and no new difficulty arising, no sudden recollection, no unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to disconcert their measures, my heroine was most… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“While well, and happy, and properly attended to, she had great good humour and excellent spirits; but any indisposition sunk her completely.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She regained the street--happy in this, that though much had been forced on her against her will, though she had in fact… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“but still, from family attachment and habit, and thorough excellence of mind, he had loved her, and watched over her from a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It may be easily believed that however little of novelty could be added to their fears hopes and conjectures on this interesting… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Nothing more alarming occurred than a fear, on Mrs. Allen's side, of having once left her clogs behind her at an inn,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Where she feared most to fail, she was most sure of success, for those to whom she endeavored to give pleasure were… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth was excessively disappointed...but it was her business to be satisfied — and certainly her temper to be happy; and all was… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Absence with the conviction probably of her indifference, had produced this very natural and desirable effect.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I had never understood her before, and that, as far as related to mind, it had been the creature of my own… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and… — 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
