“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I am really not tired, which I almost wonder at; for we must have walked at least a mile in this wood.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“If there are young ladies in the world at her time of life more dull of fancy and more careless of pleasing,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The colour which had been driven from her face, returned for half a minute with an additional glow, and a smile of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She began to feel that she had not yet gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment, which the progress of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear any thing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But perseverance in humility of conduct and messages, in self-condemnation for Robert’s offence, and gratitude for the unkindness she was treated with,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblance is not striking; but I think… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely… — 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
