“Miss Bingley was left to all the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no on any pain but herself.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty women… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Miss Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy's progress through his book, as in reading her own; and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“His sisters were anxious for his having an estate of his own; but, though he was now only established as a tenant,… — 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