Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““Louisa, by whom she found herself walking, burst forth into raptures”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Louisa beheld the grounds and house with the calm pleasure of one who has seen nothing, been nowhere, expects everything, and has little imagination.” — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day alive.” — David Healey Copy Share Image
“What do I know, father,' said Louisa in her quiet manner, 'of tastes and fancies; of aspirations and affections; of all that part of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I continued up the stairs, this time on wings, suspecting for the first time that Louisa's book might outlive us all. ” — Patricia O'Brien Copy Share Image
“information, listening to every word with rapt attention. Now that she had established herself in the duke’s household, the last thing” — Brenda Novak Copy Share Image
“[...] Louisa's attention, which had been wandering more and more during the progress of Magdalen's inquiries, wandered away altogether.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“So Lily’s mouth would open and nothing would come out, then Louisa would start rattling on about meeting her grandmother or whether she had… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“a blur of white satin and lace, Louisa Marie Honeycutt dove into the waiting limousine, slid across” — Rhonda Nelson Copy Share Image
“She wanted to lose herself in the words, in other times and places” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“she was the kind of woman who only gave herself away in small doses, leaving men wandering like little children at all that she… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others,” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“It was her work of art, her poem and her prayer, to repeat this story, low and precipitately, as if she were in the… — Henri Barbusse 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
