I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Good God! Willloughby, what is the meaning of this?" -Marianne Dashwood” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Every thing he did was right. Every thing he said was clever. If their evenings at the park included cards, he cheated… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.” — 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
“I cannot express my own abhorrence of myself. Whenever I looked towards the past, I saw some duty neglected, or some failing… — 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
Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood — 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
