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
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing. — 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
