The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings… — 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
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
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
“ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in… — 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
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he… — 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
