Category: Author Jane Austen

Of the lady’s sensations they remained a little in doubt; but that the gentleman was overflowing with admiration was evident enough. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming—one other person at least. Jane Austen Emma 0 Darcy…

Marianne’s abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinor’s. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 1 Elinor now…

it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one’s life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it. Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 1 His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and that, if he marry prudently,…

Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawingup at various times of books that she meant to read regularly through—and very good lists they were—very well chosen, and very neatly arranged—sometimes alphabetically, and sometimes by some other rule. The…

My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming-one other person at least. Jane Austen Emma 0 But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude. — Gratitude, not merely…

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 1522 I am the happiest creature in the…

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 And your defect is to hate everybody.’‘And yours,’ he replied with a smile, ‘is willfully to misunderstand them. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 0 But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of goodwill…

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation,…

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 81 Fanny! You are killing me!””No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford. Jane Austen Mansfield Park 80 It is a truth universally…

when shall I cease to regret you!—when learn to feel a home elsewhere! Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility 0 but why he should say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable! How were people, at that rate, to be understood? Jane Austen Northanger Abbey 0 Ha de poseer todo…