“ He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal. Jane Austen
“ She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart. Jane Austen
“ What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It wa… Jane Austen
“ For though a very few hours spent in the hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects than can really be in common between any two rational creatures, yet with lovers it is different.… Jane Austen
“ She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing, and it was not possible that encouragement f… Jane Austen
“ If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the da… Jane Austen
“ To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced, that the General's unjust interference, so far from being… Jane Austen
“ But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had, by her own unassisted observation, already discovered; but why should h… Jane Austen
“ Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity. Jane Austen
“ My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents. Jane Austen
“ Your feelings may be the strongest,’ replied Anne, ‘but the same spirit of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer lived;… Jane Austen
“ Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing. Jane Austen
“ Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort. Jane Austen
“ ...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasse… Jane Austen
