Family Quote by Jane Austen

“She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father; and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage, been mistress…

— Jane Austen

“Most of her feelings she deemed insubstantial and she sent them packing with barely a nod of recognition. But her feelings for her daughter…

— Cathleen Schine

“Her husband and her children did not consider her beyond criticism. She belonged to them; whatever she did affected them; their pride, their good…

— Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

“Next she lost her belief in the sincerity of those about her. She secretly refused to believe that anyone (herself excepted) loved anyone. All…

— Thornton Wilder

“seemed to her that such a one abdicated all claim to enjoy the fruits of those friendly relations with people of good position which…

— Marcel Proust

“And so her parents-in-law, whom she still regarded as the most eminent people in France, declared that she was an angel; all the more…

— Marcel Proust

“She yearned to be admired, and feared to be insulted; and yet seemed tragically conscious that she was destined to miss both these extremes…

— Edith Wharton

She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then…

— John Irving

“She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being…

— Jane Austen Persuasion

“He had swept her off her feet then, and was all charm and charisma but then the magic slowly diminished and finally died due…

— Neena H. Brar

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only…

— Jane Austen

“But, with unintelligible nostalgia for a life she had never lived, knew that all would have been subtly and profoundly different had her husband…

— Shirley Hazzard