“ On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother,… Jane Austen
“ What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own. Jane Austen
“ What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own. Jane Austen
“ No, it was not regret which made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free. She had some feelings which sh… Jane Austen
“ Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will and his hands had done it, that she owed it to his perception of her fatigue, and his resolution to g… Jane Austen
“ I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see they are often wrong. Jane Austen
“ I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of. Jane Austen
“ I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language. Jane Austen
“ Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment. Jane Austen
“ I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other creature in the world. Jane Austen
“ Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it. Jane Austen
“ Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would alwa… Jane Austen
“ Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be r… Jane Austen
“ So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing. Jane Austen
“ Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply. Jane Austen
“ Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a l… Jane Austen
“ Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annih… Jane Austen
“ Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. Jane Austen
“ But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circums… Jane Austen
