“Miss Bingley was very deeply mortified by Darcy's marriage; but as she thought it advisable to retain the right of visiting at… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation… — 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
“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Weston's friends were all made happy by her safety; and if the satisfaction of her well-doing could be increased to Emma,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Break down! Oh! Lord! Did you ever see such a little tittuppy thing in your life? There is not a sound piece… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Fanny Price was at this time just ten years old, and though there might not be much in her first appearance to… — 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
