That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.” — 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
“I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord!… — 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
She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known,… — 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
“In time, we found a common interest in poetry. He reads nothing else. Day in, day out. Never happier he is than… — 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
“Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse was at an end. But at length, by Elizabeth's persuasion, he was prevailed on to… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure… — 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
“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
“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
“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
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth's mind, a more gentle sensation towards the original, that she had ever felt in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You will excuse my being so much overpowered. If I find him conversible, I shall be glad of his acquaintance; but if… — 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
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
“Sir Thomas, indeed, was, by this time, not very far from classing Mrs. Norris as one of those well–meaning people who are… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“While we were together, you know, there was nothing to be feared...The only time that I ever really suffered in body or… — 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
“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
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
“A woman of seven-and-twenty,” said Marianne, after pausing a moment, “can never hope to feel or inspire affection again, and if her… — 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
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