“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
She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence… — 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
“It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that extatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when… — 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
“But it is fortunate,'' thought she, ``that I have something to wish for. Were the whole arrangement complete, my disappointment would be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Every thing was said that could encourage, every encouragement received with grateful joy, and the gentlemen parted the best of friends.” — 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
