There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in… — 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
Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it,… — 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