Sisters Quote by Jane Austen

“two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a…

— Jane Austen

“advantage, spent the chief of her time with her two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement…

— Jane Austen

“In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia”

— Jane Austen

“Some far day when she had become a better person and could feel something besides stinging anger that her beautiful, gentle sister had not…

— Charles Frazier

“She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong to no…

— Guy de Maupassant

“To her, all women, including her two sisters, were natural enemies in pursuit of the same prey--man.”

— Margaret Mitchell

“All these years, her sole objective had been to keep still and hope no one would ever know. She had been a mistress of…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

“If she had been born a hundred years later, she would very likely have been encouraged to be angry, told she had a right…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went.…

— Robert Harris

“Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception of happiness,…

— Henry James

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although…

— Winston Graham