“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” (Jane Austen)” — 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
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“for what could a silent man of five-and-thirty hope, when opposed to a very lively one of five-and-twenty?” — 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
All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by those who resemble you.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Upon my word, sir, your hope is a rather extraordinary one after my declaration. I do assure you that I am not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne could not immediately fall into a quotation again. The sweet scenes of autumn were for a while put by - unless… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“in dawdling through the greenhouse, where the loss of her favorite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she… — 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