“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Te aseguro que no soy de las que quieren a medias. Mis sentimientos siempre son profundos y arraigados"...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“First of all, he asked Miss Lucas. I was so vexed to see him stand up with her! But, however, he did… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by those who resemble you.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There… — 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
“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
What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[H]is first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet,… — 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
![“[H]is first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine did not think it could ever be repeated too often. She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally knew was…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/47f/jane-austen-39_common-life_h-is-first-purpose-was-to-explain-himsel_2858805.jpg)
![“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37a/jane-austen-39_marriage_everybody-is-taken-in-at-some-period-or_7175.jpg)
