Family Quote by Jane Austen

“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

“Do you have any idea how beautiful you are?” he asked. Elizabeth had a vague idea, since everyone was always telling her, and she…

— Judith McNaught

“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

“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

“for he saw in Elizabeth's eyes a kind of darkness; a kind of absence-as if her soul had taken leave, so that compassion and…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“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

“The Queen’s family never understood that he had provided her with the companionship over the last decade of her life, which they themselves had…

— Shrabani Basu

“By the time she had finished, her hand was in Elizabeth's firm clasp again. Her touch was strangely comforting—a woman's touch signifying a woman's…

— Mary Balogh

“...she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print,…

— Carol Shields

Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became…

— Jane Austen

“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

“As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality...…

— Jane Austen