Fanny Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““But manner Fanny did not want. Would they but love her, she should be satisfied.”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Did Want Fanny Fanny Did Love Satisfied Manner Fanny
“...to say that he is unlike Fanny is enough. It implies everything amiable. I love him already.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I should have thought,' said Fanny after a pause of recollection and exertion, 'that every woman must have felt the possibility of a man's… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“marry. Fanny was having all the time what I experienced only the once with Colonel Birch in the orchard. I had my fame to comfort me, and the money it brought in, but that only went so far. I could not hate Fanny, for it were my fault she was crippled. But I could not ever feel friendly towards her… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share
“Even hearing him say those words thrilled her. She wanted him to possess her. To desire her. To ravish her. She no longer had… — Audra Claire Copy Share Image
“She never called her son by any name but John; 'love,' and 'dear,' and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny. But her heart… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“She thought she was a sensible girl. But some kind of love had taken hold of her and refused to let her go, and… — Harriet Evans Copy Share Image
“He wanted to see this woman writhe in pleasure, wanted to be the only man to cause it. More than anything he wanted her… — Margaret Taylor Copy Share Image
“Her tone held a challenge. She did not need his condemnation or what his pity. Once, she had wanted his love, but that time… — India Drummond Copy Share Image
“And she was attractive. She had an unusual mixture of innocence and individuality. A man who loved her might waken all kinds of passions… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“In the triumphant exaltation of her feelings, Miss Fanny, using her Spanish fan with one hand, squeezed her sister's waist with the other, as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“How could he claim to love her, when he did not love what was essential in her?” — Cecilia Grant 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
“He has big hands too, I say, swigging cider. I should know. Big beautiful hands. I daresay big feet as well. You mean that...?… — Janet Mullany Copy Share Image