“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
“Tempo ou oportunidade não determinam a intimidade, apenas a disposição.” — 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
A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” ― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There had been moments when she felt he had almost forgiven her. She would always remember those moments.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“As long as you need time to think my affections and wishes are unchanged, and one word from you will silence me… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain… — 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
“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
“How then was I to be--to be in love with him the moment he said he was with me? how was I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Neither the dissipations of the past--and she had lived very much in the world, nor the restrictions of the present; neither sickness… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against… — 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
“She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks.' 'I am sorry for that. At her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such ladies there are) who are so daring… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But , Mr. Knightley, are you perfectly sure that she has absolutely and downright accepted him? I could suppose she might in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind, in what manner he thought of her, and whether,… — 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
She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He was at that time a very young man, just engaged in the study of the law; and Elizabeth found him extremely… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind! If any one faculty of our… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Lady Catherine was extremely indignant on the marriage of her nephew; and as she gave way to all the genuine frankness of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…when people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment or are the result of previous study?” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself.” — 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 anything to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now. — 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
“I love to be reminded of the past, Edward – whether it be melancholy or gay, I love to recall it.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time,* and the changes of the human mind!’ And” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. — 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
“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image