“She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There had been moments when she felt he had almost forgiven her. She would always remember those moments.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp the perfection of her felicity.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Colonel Brandon alone, of all the party, heard her without being in raptures. He paid her only the compliment of attention. from… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Every thing was safe enough, and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…but her Letters were always unsatisfactory, and though she did not openly avow her feelings, yet every line proved her to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If her case was pitiable, his was hopeless. His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Colonel Brandon alone, of all the party, heard her without being in raptures. He paid her only the compliment of attention;” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She was persuaded that under every disadvantage of disapprobation at home, and every anxiety attending his profession, all their probable fears, delays,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She began to feel that she had not yet gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment, which the progress of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heart-felt delight, diffused over his… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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
“Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She considered that there were misfortunes of a much greater magnitude than the loss of a ball experienced every day by some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“All the overpowering blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“poor Isabella;—which poor Isabella, passing her life with those she doated on, full of their merits, blind to their faults, and always… — 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
“As it happened that Elizabeth had much rather not, she endeavoured in her answer to put an end to every entreaty and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They were gone, she hoped, to be happy, however oddly constructed such happiness might seem; as for herself, she was left with… — 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
