Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““I wish you could persuade Mary not to be always fancying herself ill.”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Mary is…different to me. I’m not going to pretend I understand why. All I know is, she’s a pounding in my chest that I… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“There's an independence about Mary - she's not influenced by anyone and she's very much her own person, she makes her own decisions. I… — Jessica Fellowes Copy Share Image
“Mary was fond of her own thoughts, and could amuse herself well sitting in twilight with her hands in her lap; for, having early… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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“Despite her maturity, Mary was easily hoodwinked; that’s the problem with those who only ever see the good in people. I found it easy… — John Marrs Copy Share Image
“Mary feels she should have been a boy and then everything would have been so much easier. She fights against her femininity in a… — Jessica Fellowes Copy Share Image
“Instead she squeezes Mary’s arm and appreciates her kindness. Her understanding. This is why people have children, even when they believe the world is… — Jessica Shattuck Copy Share Image
“Mary was always surprised at how terse men could be. She needed fifteen minutes to say hello. Plus hugging time.” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“He had despised that Mary with her idiot smile, symbol of a story that meant nothing, servant of a God who no good to… — Joe Hill 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