Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after… — 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
