Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. — 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