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 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 little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of… — 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