You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
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Related Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. Y... JANE AUSTEN I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends. JANE AUSTEN I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f... MARK RUFFALO Who are you, Hayes Campbell?” He smiled, his hands burrowing in his pockets. “I’m your b... ROBINNE LEE My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect. RICHELLE MEAD Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, ... OLIVER GOLDSMITH Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab... CHARLOTTE BRONTë What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend wh... CHARLES M. SCHWAB I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your... CAMERON DIAZ Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my de... MARGARET MITCHELL Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to s... SALLY QUINN Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They ha... HORACE WALPOLE Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They ha... HORACE WALPOLE My friends call me by my name." "You don't have any friends." "I don't want you to be my f... SHANNON HALE I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you an... NICK HORNBY I think it's their obligation to tell me my options. I don't think they should say, 'You're getting ... BETH ESPY Dear sir: twelve hours is as twelve years to me. I imagine you in your home, smiling, thinking of me... LAURA WHITCOMB If I tell you that I have seen the alien, you won't believe me, or at least you will ask for my expl... TOBA BETA I told them that I have to do extensive repairs to the place, and I need to negotiate a brand new le... JACK LEBEWOHL And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they... MARK WAHLBERG My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life . I don't have the courage to read it,... KATHERINE REAY I watch him inhale Mary Jane .. He kisses me and blows her into my mouth. High with Mary Jane. .. Th... NERISSA IRVING Never compromise your "Self-respect" for "Love". If feel like you are loosing your "Self-respect" fo... SHARFARAZ AHMED They told us, ‘You don't have the capacity, you lack the technical ability and the moral fiber... CHARLES MCGEE They told us, ‘You don't have the capacity, you lack the technical ability and the moral fiber' ..... CHARLES MCGEE I have been speaking to you all of your life. In the gurgle of a tide pool, I breathed myself into y... SARAH WARDEN I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not ... CAMERON DIAZ I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl. MAGGIE GRACE My friends are my inspiration, and all of them are true friends that support me. On a daily basis, I... REEM ACRA Dear Miss .I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript ... I suffered exactly the same treatm... ALBERT EINSTEIN For years, my friends, we have all heard that familiar taunt, 'Don't worry about them; they have now... PAT BUCHANAN I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I st... MANDY MOORE I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr... MAHESH BABU Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my fri... EDIE FALCO The dynamics are pretty much the same among me and my friends as they were when I was 18 years old. DANNY MCBRIDE For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The ... BETTY BUCKLEY There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from t... KATE WINSLET I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at... AMY PLUM I am friends with someone because they bring out the best in me. In this respect all of my friends a... NICK KINSELLA Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long... HENRY JAMES Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and
sure, dear friends, my thanks are ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have call... BIBLE Only when you are in trouble do you realize who your true friends are… And, my dear, you will be s... CHARBEL TADROS I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have ... TRACY MORGAN As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship... HUGH JACKMAN In the last two years, the youngest people are asking me for the oldest songs, ... I'm talking kids ... RICHIE HAVENS As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose vo... CHARLOTTE BRONTë My dear Rosie, Unbeknownst to you I took this chance before, many, many years ago. You ne... CECELIA AHERN You know, there was a time when childbirth was possibly the most terrifying thing you could do in yo... 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I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER My dear boy', Le Chiffre spoke like a father, 'the game of Red Indians is over, quite over. You have... IAN FLEMING I will give you my days... but, my dear sorceress, your nights are mine. BEC MCMASTER I have loved you from the moment I heard your voice. Thank you for coming here, and being my Christm... ALEXA RILEY If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in y... RANATA SUZUKI And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone... POLLY BERGEN My name is Lilith, I’m twenty six years old and besides working for my father, I don’t do much. RACHEL SPANSWICK I'm stupidly crazy for old movies. I (record) them so that when I'm doing my makeup in the morning, ... GWEN STEFANI Getting up quite late in the morning, going and trying to clean my bikes - I have quite a few of the... MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI I have them for one hour a week for 10 weeks. My impact can't be the same that their friends are. Bu... BOB OLIVER I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known... BROOKE SHIELDS Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun. ERIC ROBERTS I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again ... PATRICK WARBURTON I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you.... WILLIAM GOLDMAN Matty,” Jane whispered, “what are you thinking?” He smiled, kissed her navel before glanc... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE When I called him I asked if he had heard about my brothers and my daddy. He said: 'Your cousins lie... ALONZO HORTON My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. JOYCE CAROL OATES I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old. OLEG CASSINI I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shephe... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I spent the first twenty years of my life waiting for two men I was reasonably certain would never c... BRETT BUTLER After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I n... JAY LONDON For what purpose have you prayed?" "For thanks. If I must die, at least I have lived. If my com... MICHAEL F. FLYNN I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affect... BRODY JENNER Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my... JOAN RIVERS I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining... A. N. WILSON I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking ... OSCAR LEVANT You are going, Jane?" "I am going, sir." "You are leaving me?" "Yes... CHARLOTTE BRONTë my dear show me i am with you . other way show me you are with me . not seeing LITYMUNSHI I'm very lucky to have a strong support system with my friends and my family. They have kept me ... KELSEY CHOW Meredith,” Taranis said, “how can you insult me like this? These men attacked a lady of my court... LAURELL K. HAMILTON My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, becaus... SHAKIRA It's so hard to have them see me this way, ... I have been honest with my daughter. She knows I have... ANGELA HUNT I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and wil... GORDON PARKS More than anything, I began to hate women writers. 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Every savage can dance. JANE AUSTEN To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. JANE AUSTEN A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. JANE AUSTEN If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. JANE AUSTEN One man's style must not be the rule of another's. JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv... JANE AUSTEN The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi... JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ... JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be... JANE AUSTEN Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. JANE AUSTEN Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. JANE AUSTEN Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. JANE AUSTEN I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi... JANE AUSTEN I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses... JANE AUSTEN What strange creatures brothers are! JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short. JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise. JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But... JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ... JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ... JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo... JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ... JANE AUSTEN Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. JANE AUSTEN Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces... JANE AUSTEN I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, ... JANE AUSTEN Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f... JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked... JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N... JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to... JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic... JANE AUSTEN We are all fools in love JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ... JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p... JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor... JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f... JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault. JANE AUSTEN I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive. JANE AUSTEN I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif... JANE AUSTEN To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at la... JANE AUSTEN Is not general incivility the very essence of love? JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really... JANE AUSTEN In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te... JANE AUSTEN There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop... JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai... JANE AUSTEN Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ... JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. JANE AUSTEN It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. JANE AUSTEN From politics it was an easy step to silence. JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab... JANE AUSTEN One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. JANE AUSTEN It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co... JANE AUSTEN It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s... JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o... JANE AUSTEN One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth... JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o... JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. JANE AUSTEN With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. JANE AUSTEN There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be... JANE AUSTEN And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea... JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,... JANE AUSTEN Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara... JANE AUSTEN Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. JANE AUSTEN Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. JANE AUSTEN It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing... JANE AUSTEN A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh... JANE AUSTEN . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether... JANE AUSTEN Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso... JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. JANE AUSTEN One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be... JANE AUSTEN It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ... JANE AUSTEN Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe... JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ... JANE AUSTEN My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. JANE AUSTEN If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. JANE AUSTEN I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed femal... JANE AUSTEN It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. JANE AUSTEN It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respec... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN Well! Evil to some is always good to others. JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considera... JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the ... JANE AUSTEN I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan... JANE AUSTEN I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It... JANE AUSTEN What are men to rocks and mountains? JANE AUSTEN Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti... JANE AUSTEN One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at... JANE AUSTEN It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before JANE AUSTEN Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. JANE AUSTEN In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the se... JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. JANE AUSTEN We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our me... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead o... JANE AUSTEN When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to... JANE AUSTEN The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwel... JANE AUSTEN Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always ... JANE AUSTEN I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few d... JANE AUSTEN It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. JANE AUSTEN She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho... JANE AUSTEN One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fa... JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taug... JANE AUSTEN The distance is nothing when one has a motive. JANE AUSTEN Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. JANE AUSTEN A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of JANE AUSTEN My good opinion once lost is lost forever. JANE AUSTEN Till this moment I never knew myself. JANE AUSTEN He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. JANE AUSTEN An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your... JANE AUSTEN From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, y... JANE AUSTEN To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love JANE AUSTEN You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell m... JANE AUSTEN I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with ... JANE AUSTEN I have not the pleasure of understanding you. JANE AUSTEN I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the... JANE AUSTEN Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. JANE AUSTEN Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one... JANE AUSTEN It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and ... JANE AUSTEN An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her care... JANE AUSTEN I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. JANE AUSTEN There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give ... JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for t... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. JANE AUSTEN Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s... JANE AUSTEN Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m... JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in ... JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really... JANE AUSTEN What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. JANE AUSTEN There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. JANE AUSTEN There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. JANE AUSTEN Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. JANE AUSTEN A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sp... JANE AUSTEN The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without... JANE AUSTEN It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little t... JANE AUSTEN She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa... JANE AUSTEN Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo... JANE AUSTEN There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got al... JANE AUSTEN Beware how you give your heart. JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ... JANE AUSTEN Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect... JANE AUSTEN You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth... JANE AUSTEN Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas... JANE AUSTEN Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say... JANE AUSTEN The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o... JANE AUSTEN We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. JANE AUSTEN It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these... JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! JANE AUSTEN Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. JANE AUSTEN General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. JANE AUSTEN Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums... JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. JANE AUSTEN I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. JANE AUSTEN My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ... JANE AUSTEN One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it JANE AUSTEN But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ... JANE AUSTEN Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu... JANE AUSTEN It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno... JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer. JANE AUSTEN It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in... JANE AUSTEN My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m... JANE AUSTEN Vanity, not love, has been my folly. JANE AUSTEN They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ... JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ... JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ... JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted. JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn... JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already. JANE AUSTEN It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves. JANE AUSTEN