“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is a truth universally acknowledged....well, in this crowd, I believe we can depend on our fellow bookies to fill in the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He is blinded and nothing will open his eyes,nothing can,after having had truths so long before him in vain.--He will marry her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a large fortune is in want of a wife!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Her face was so lovely, that when, in the common want of praise, she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that… — 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
“To say the truth, though I am hurt and grieved, that I cannot still love her, that I am never to hear… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“To say the truth,' replied Miss Crawford, 'I am something like the famous Doge at the court of Lewis XIV.; and may… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I thank you again and again for the hounour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is… — 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
