“ Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. Jane Austen
“ Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has left behind. Jane Austen
“ Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us… Jane Austen
“ Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling. Jane Austen
“ He paid her only the compliment of attention; and she felt a respect for him on the occasion, which the others had reasonably forfeited by their shameless want of taste. Jane Austen
“ It was gratitude; gratitude, not merelyfor having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him. Jane Austen
“ You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know - You have qualities which I had not supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you, beyon… Jane Austen
“ I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals.” (10) Jane Austen
“ Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast. Jane Austen
“ By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. Jane Austen
“ Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that h… Jane Austen
“ We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to. Jane Austen
“ She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived a… Jane Austen
