“I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Consideration and Esteem surely follow command of Language as Admiration waits on Beauty” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And Anne could have said much, and did long to say a little in defence of her friend's not very dissimilar claims… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Cu siguranta, nu-l ura. Nu, ura trecuse cu mult timp in urma si cam tot de atunci se nascuse senzatia de rusine… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Her tears fell abundantly—but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes—and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“were in the habit of spending more than they ought, and of associating with people of rank, and were therefore in every… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I thank you again and again for the hounour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“In marriage especially. With all due respect to such of the present company as chance to be married, my dear Mrs. Grant,… — 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
“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un better than Commerce; but with respect to any… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a… — 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