“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Now I must give one smirk, and then we may be rational again." Catherine turned away her head, not knowing whether she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“First of all, he asked Miss Lucas. I was so vexed to see him stand up with her! But, however, he did… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A general silence prevailed--A silence, which was by nothing interrupted but by the loud and repeated snores of one of the Party.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“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
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Jennings wrote to tell the wonderful tale, to vent her honest indignation against the jilting girl, and pour forth her compassion… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Aye, a very bad business indeed. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...to say that he is unlike Fanny is enough. It implies everything amiable. I love him already.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mr. Darcy said very little, and Mr. Hurst nothing at all. The former was divided between admiration of the brilliancy which exercise… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Miss Bennet was therefore established as a sweet girl, and their brother felt authorized by such a commendation to think of her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is amazing to me," said Bingley, "How young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are."… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You thought the waiter must not hear, as if he cared! I dare say he often hears worse things said than I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But , Mr. Knightley, are you perfectly sure that she has absolutely and downright accepted him? I could suppose she might in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Her tears fell abundantly—but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes—and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty women… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Her partner now drew near, and said, "That gentleman would have put me out of patience, had he stayed with you half… — 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
