Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness. — 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
“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
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
“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
Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in… — 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
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.” ― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship” — 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
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
She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for… — 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
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — 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
“When he was present she had no eyes for any one else. Every thing he did, was right. Every thing he said,… — 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
“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
“…when people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five.” — 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
She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Their resemblance in good principles and good sense, in disposition and manner of thinking, would probably have been sufficient to unite them… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of… — 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
“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
