Category: Author Jane Austen

Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it? Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 4 As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality… and as she threw…

Dashwood Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 0 loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex. Jane Austen…

admitted it to be no more than due decorum.”—Emma Jane Austen Emma 0 condescended Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.” “I Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0…

I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1 These are the sights, Harriet, to do one good. How trifling they make every thing else appear!—I feel now as if I could think of nothing but these poor creatures all the…

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1 remained with no very cordial feelings toward him. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1 introduction, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1 Fingir candor es algo bastante corriente, se ve en todas partes. Pero ser cándido…

Cuando las personas se empeñan en una forma de conducta que saben equivocada, se sienten agraviadas cuando se espera algo mejor de ellas. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 0 The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. I Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 0 Elizabeth,…

You conjecture Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 But that expression of ‘violently in love’ is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour’s acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment. Pray, how violent was Mr. Bingley’s love?…

You and I, Sir John,” said Mrs. Jennings, “should never stand upon such ceremony.””Then you would be very ill-bred,” cried Mr. Palmer.”My love, you contradict every body,” – said his wife with her usual laugh. “Do you know that you are quite rude?””I did not know I contradicted any body in calling your mother ill-bred.…

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 325 I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 324 She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself…

Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment…