“[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
“there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She was suddenly roused by the sound of the door-bell, and her spirits were a little fluttered by the idea of its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A woman of seven-and-twenty,” said Marianne, after pausing a moment, “can never hope to feel or inspire affection again, and if her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If he does not come to me, then ,' said she, 'I shall give him up for ever.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Of course I love her, but there are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“These things happen so often . A young man , such as you describe , Mr.Bingley , so easily falls in love… — 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
