Kindlehighlight Quote by Jane Austen

“They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were…

— Jane Austen

“personally acquainted with them,”

— Virginia Gaffney

“I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.”

— Joan Countryman

“they seemed to be greater strangers than before”

— Émile Zola

“people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Why were all the handsome ones always such bastards?”

— Linnea Sinclair

“At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which…

— Jane Austen

“After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle…

— George Eliot

“They were all so jovial and relaxed with one another, fraternal even. Maybe I was envious of that. They had lives—that was evident.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“They sat in the companionable awkwardness caused by knowing extremely private things about each other that had never been directly confided.”

— Jodi Picoult

“...and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.”

— Wodehouse

“The WELLians were learning how to turn their private experiences into a public commodity.”

— Lee Siegel