“Sir Edward's great object in life was to be seductive. With such personal advantages as he knew himself to possess, and such… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of an heavy rain.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Sir John's confidence in his own judgment rose with this animated praise, and he set off directly for the cottage to tell… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.” “And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“for everybody must now 'move in a circle', - to the prevalence of which rotatory motion, is perhaps to be attributed the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[H]is first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Ms. Bennett, do you know who I am? I am not accustomed to being spoken to in such a manner.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Musgrove was of a comfortable substantial size, infinitely more fitted by nature to express good cheer and good humor, than tenderness… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord!… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The house seemed to have all the comforts of little Children, dirt and litter.” — 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
