General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
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MAGGIE GRACE A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himse...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himse...
ALEXANDER BELL A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of hims...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himse...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL In general nothing is complicated, it’s just man do not know more then what he wants to believe
YAMIN RASHEED I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
J. K. ROWLING I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
DODIE SMITH To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession o...
BRUCE FEIRSTEIN People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose...
ANGELA THIRKELL In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama
HARPER LEE I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a m...
JANE AUSTEN As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. ROWLING At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or ...
C.S. LEWIS Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
JANE AUSTEN Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"
"For the liveliness of your mind,...
JANE AUSTEN Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summari...
TRACY CHEVALIER You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and...
JANE AUSTEN Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that ‘man was made to reason, woman to feel.’ Per...
EMILY AUERBACH I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus spari...
CATHLEEN SCHINE [T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he ...
CONFUCIUS A man ought not to be governed by laws, in the framing of which he had not a voice, either in person...
CHARLES GREY 2ND EARL GREY A man ought not to be governed by laws, in the framing of which he had not a voice, either in person...
CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL GREY In general, I have come to the conclusion that he is not always a reliable witness and that any affi...
JOHN GOMERY My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after...
MARY ANN SHAFFER She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the mis...
JANE AUSTEN A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good gene...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good gener...
CHAMFORT Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, char...
GERMANY KENT I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and ...
WHIT STILLMAN If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office.
GEORGE A. ROMERO In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and...
LEMONY SNICKET He has had this general discomfort and that is why we are at the hospital to determine what is causi...
EMMANUEL MWAMBA I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a m...
JANE AUSTEN I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self...
EMILY AUERBACH Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE It's getting out of hand. But it's not what the general public thinks.
BRUCE FISCHER But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, ...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I don't think the American public wants to see their gas tax money used for general appropriations, ...
HENRY BROWN If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired...
SYDNEY BIDDLE BARROWS Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious f...
JANE AUSTEN When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach...
JANE AUSTEN I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.
SUSANNA CLARKE It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
KAREN JOY FOWLER I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. WILSON A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
FEOUDE A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
FEOUDE A man ought to do what he thinks is right
JOHN WAYNE He treated that general worse than you would treat a dog and he did so knowing he was required to tr...
MAJ. TIERNAN DOLAN Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such...
ARTHUR CAPPER I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets t...
VAL MCDERMID Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what ...
THOMAS AQUINAS Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what ...
SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what ...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS There was a general expectation that he would be called back to jail.
ILTER TURAN While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society h...
C.S. LEWIS True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionat...
FRANCES O'CONNOR Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests ea...
EDMUND BURKE Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the lev...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Our instincts are when Josh Byrnes steps into the role formally, he has the potential to be not only...
JEFF MOORAD As with all individuals about whom statements may be made in the upcoming report, the secretary-gene...
MARIE OKABE She [Jane Austen] was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she eve...
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will atte...
VAL MCDERMID I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen i...
ANNE STEVENSON As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Priv...
EDWARD W. HOWE As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Priv...
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such...
ARTHUR CAPPER That really happened when Robin came on board, ... He wanted Michael [Stern] to be a real man, not j...
KATHY BATES It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States ...
JOE BIDEN I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no ge...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can n...
TOM WILSON It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly info...
P.D. JAMES You cannot give all the powers to the secretary general. The General Assembly has to keep its main p...
ABDALLAH BAALI The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting ev...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary ina...
THIRUVALLUVAR When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the obje...
DOUG HARVEY General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedn...
HERBERT M. SHELTON For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters...
VICTOR FRANKL There will be parking for the general public, but I'm not sure if there will be a parking fee.
SCOTT AARONSON Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in gen...
NOVALIS The heart is a strange thing," Evelyn said, staring off into space. "It can be broken easily and tak...
SARAH HOLMAN 'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real ...
SUSANNA CLARKE Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calcula...
GEORGE MASON It was his vision and perseverance that made Opelousas General a reality.
MICHELLE PERKINS A woman's general. What should we fear?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I don't know if we'll end up with a sexy general manager, ... I'm not sure I know exactly what that ...
DAVID MONTGOMERY Jason will be a general.
HANK MALLOL Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK 'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our l...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH
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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 You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear...
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 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