“Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And now, Henry," said Miss Tilney, "that you have made us understand each other, you may as well make Miss Morland understand… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Anne always contemplated them as some of the happiest creatures of her acquaintance; but still, saved as we all are, by some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Parker was as evidently a gentle, amiable, sweet-tempered woman, the properest wife in the world for a man of strong understanding… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He had meant them to be good, but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“To be distinguished for elegance and accomplishments—the authorised object of their youth—could have had no useful influence that way, no moral effect… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elinor, this eldest daughter, whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment, which qualified her, though… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and that, if he marry prudently, his… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think… — 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
