Allowance Quote by Anne Stuart

“Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself.”

— Jane Austen

“But when it came to her own behavior—to the threat she posed to herself—she’d been incapable of gauging its gravity and reluctant to avail…

— Jonathan Allen

“She had to be made to understand that she can’t go mouthing off about people and not expect consequences from it.”

— Chrissy Moon

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance,…

— Henry Fielding

“Over the last month her grip on her home and work life had slipped beyond her control. Her earnings had disappeared to practically nothing.”

— Clare Donoghue

“Reluctantly, and with much hesitation, did she then begin what might perhaps, at the end of half an hour, be termed, by the courtesy…

— Jane Austen

“All she wanted was five minutes to herself, to hear herself think without someone demanding explanations or that she fix something she couldn’t fix.”

— Starla Huchton

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Some mornings, she’d wake and vow, Today, I will get it right. I won’t be such an awful mess of a girl. I won’t…

— Libba Bray

“She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.”

— Thomas Hardy

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for…

— Virginia Woolf

“She was the bad habit I’d never broken, because I didn’t fucking want to.”

— Tammara Webber