“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young… — 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
“There was a numerous family; but the only two grown up, excepting Charles, were Henrietta and Louisa, young ladies of nineteen and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I am not one of those young ladies who are so daring to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such ladies there are) who are so daring… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Upon my word, sir, your hope is a rather extraordinary one after my declaration. I do assure you that I am not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“When the hour of departure drew near, the maternal anxiety of Mrs Morland will be naturally supposed to be severe... Cautions against… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is amazing to me," said Bingley, "How young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are."… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[She] is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own, and with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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
“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
Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion.… — 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
“Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“As for any society in Portsmouth, that could at all make amends for deficiencies at home, there were none within the circle… — 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
