“How much time she might, in her own fancy, allot for its dominion, is another concern. It would not be fair to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The Longbourn party were the last of all the company to depart, and, by a manoeuvre of Mrs. Bennet, had to wait… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“In that moment, as they stood smiling at one another, Charlotte was conscious of several contradictory sensations, of which the chief were… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“frankness of her character in her reply to the letter which announced its arrangement, she sent him language so very abusive, especially… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Kitty, to her very material advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to… — 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
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
“Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the… — 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
“Catherine- "How I hate the sight of an umbrella!" Mrs. Allen- "They are disagreeable things to carry. I would much rather take… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Oh! not handsome—not at all handsome. I thought him very plain at first, but I do not think him so plain now.… — 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
Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Sally, or rather Sarah (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I am afraid I am not quite so much the man of the world as might be good for me in some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Most unwilling was she to awaken from such a dream of felicity, to comprehend all the unhappy truths which attended the affair;… — 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
“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
“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
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
“Her tears fell abundantly—but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes—and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“even in the quieter professions, there is a toil and a labour of the mind, if not of the body, which seldom… — 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
