“They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“No more have I," said Mr. Bennet; "and I am glad to find that you do not depend on her serving you.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. He… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Bennet replied that he had not. "But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mr. Bennet’s expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. He had always intended to visit him, though to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You judge very properly," said Mr. Bennet, "and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy.… — 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