Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““Elizabeth received them with all the forbearance of civility”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“When these with violence were burned to death, We wished for our Elizabeth.” — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“As it happened that Elizabeth had much rather not, she endeavoured in her answer to put an end to every entreaty and expectation of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth was excessively disappointed...but it was her business to be satisfied — and certainly her temper to be happy; and all was soon right… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The horror of her incarceration in the Tower was a defining event Elizabeth could never forget. It made a passionate heart more circumspect, a… — Jane Dunn Copy Share Image
“To Elizabeth it appeared that, had her family made an agreement to expose themselves as much as they could during the evening, it would… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“What, may I ask, does your one truck contain if not gowns?” Inspiration struck, and Elizabeth smiled radiantly. “Something of great value. Priceless value,”… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“For the love of God, woman, there's only one rule in that bloody book worth following.' 'And that is?' Elizabeth asked disdainfully. 'That you… — Julia Quinn 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
