Category: Author Jane Austen

Elinor, for shame!” said Marianne, “money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 9 Encouraged by this to a further examination of his opinions, she proceeded to question him…

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library – Caroline Bingley Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 If the change be not from outward circumstances, it must be from within; it must be nature, man’s nature, which has done the business for Captain Benwick.’…

Нахалството му надмина очакванията на Елизабет; тяседеше и мълчаливо се зарече да помни отсега нататък, че наглосттана наглия е безгранична. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 Her power with him was gone for ever. Jane Austen Persuasion 0 But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are…

Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it, and certainty itself. She now found that, in spite of herself, she had always admitted a hope, while Edward remained single, that something would occur to prevent his marrying Lucy; that some resolution…

What are men compared to rocks and trees? Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 12 …she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 12 If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 12…

A todos nos gusta dar lecciones, pero sólo enseñamos lo que no merece la pena saber. Perdóname, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similiar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to…

Is not general incivility the very essence of love? Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 121 She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called. The respect created by the conviction of his…

Many were the tears shed by them in their last adieus to a place so much beloved. “Dear, dear Norland!” said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last evening of their being there; “when shall I cease to regret you!—when learn to feel a home elsewhere!—Oh! happy house, could you know…

they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 2 Well, he certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.” “Dear Lizzy! Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1 Had…

Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. The bride was elegantly dressed and the two bridesmaids were duly inferior. Her mother stood with salts,…