“ Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried. Jane Austen
“ I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of e… Jane Austen
“ It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly. Jane Austen
“ She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. Jane Austen
“ Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths. — I do… Jane Austen
“ I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. Jane Austen
“ To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot any where. -This nut... while so many of its brethr… Jane Austen
“ [Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinio… Jane Austen
“ I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience. Jane Austen
“ If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it. Jane Austen
“ I understand you.—You do not suppose that I have ever felt much.—For four months, Marianne, I have had all this hanging on my mind, without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature; knowin… Jane Austen
“ He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before… Jane Austen
“ But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now so widely different from what they were then, that every unpleasant circumstance attendin… Jane Austen
“ In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving. Jane Austen
“ Everybody pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings… Jane Austen
