Parenting Quote by Jane Austen

“But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.”

— Jane Austen

“At long last he was her's”

— Josephine Cox

“She is still a bundle of engaging possibilities rather than a finished picture. Of the mother there is nothing to say, for that excellent…

— Edith Wharton

“on so short an acquaintance remains shut up in his breast.  His mother, I know, went to his door”

— Henry James

“Oh, papa!” she cried. “There is Emily!” A flush had risen to her face and there was an expression in her green-gray eyes as…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Mama will be pleased to know that her least favourite daughter is to be married." "To her least favourite man in the world, no…

— P.O. Dixon

“How long till you get her?" "Not long," she says. "Not long at all." He sighs again. "Good." "But dad?" "Yeah?" "Can you remind…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“There'd been a time, not that long ago, when they'd both spoken the endearment almost daily. Now she couldn't recall the last time she'd…

— C.J. Carmichael

“A moment ago, and how close she had been to him, of what importance in his life! And how aloof and remote from him…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He'd waited a thousand years for her, and she would know him for less than two weeks.”

— Trinity Faegen

“She came back many days later. She saw him, unexpectedly, on a flat stretch of stone before her, by the side of the path.…

— Ayn Rand

“Bennet replied that he had not. "But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about…

— Jane Austen