“ Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart. Jane Austen
“ Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. Jane Austen
“ I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some w… Jane Austen
“ I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. Jane Austen
“ A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not. Jane Austen
“ Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be… Jane Austen
“ 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. Jane Austen
“ Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. F… Jane Austen
“ Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself. Jane Austen
“ In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free fr… Jane Austen
“ The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved either, as to its final event, can hardly extend, I fear, to the bosom of my reade… Jane Austen
“ How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it! Jane Austen
“ You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevi… Jane Austen
“ You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the… Jane Austen
