It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.
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Related But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ... JANE AUSTEN She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been as... JANE AUSTEN The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew ... CHARLES PERRAULT If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewher... ROBIN HOBB It’s not her shape, her face, or her hair that makes her beautiful. Neither is it t... PIERRE ALEX JEANTY Her determination (was) to stand up, not merely for herself, not merely for all women, not merely fo... JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN Jane Austen’s world is a unique wedge of history, immortalized by her wonderful books. It is ironi... LESLEY-ANNE MCLEOD Love is not for only One Day, Every Day is Valentine Day and may be actual Valentine day is not a da... LOVE QUOTES FOR HER . . . All of us who worked to support peace in Northern Ireland owe her our gratitude. BILL CLINTON you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau... CHARLES DICKENS One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things whi... VAL MCDERMID There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationsh... DONNA LYNN HOPE Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice should create in the discerning male reader a deeply rooted conc... GERALD WEAVER Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a... JANE AUSTEN Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen'... WHIT STILLMAN Whether or not there was room in her life for Tamani, Laurel knew that there was precious little roo... APRILYNNE PIKE For all the way he loved her. Every song had her memory, every rain had her smell, and every girl ha... AKSHAY VASU Her eyes were open, taking in my tired face... Her face twitched into what looked like a squinty smi... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can al... ELIE WIESEL No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of t... HOWARD JACOBSON Her attention to detail was fabulous. People loved working with her and for her. CAROLYN LAYNE She hated him for all her might. She hated him for leaving her all those years ago, she hated him fo... DIYAR HARRAZ A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifice... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices... WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him,... ALPHONSUS LIGUORI Her appearance was formidable, her manner-well, it was like talking to St Paul's Cathedral. HENRY CHANNON I've seen Jane just kind of pick it up and fluff it up and make it a little more palatable for other... KIM EVANS When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can ... ELIE WIESEL It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things. CHARLOTTE BRONTë I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how s... WILLIAM J. CLINTON When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can al... ELIE WIESEL And for about the millionth time in her life she felt an overwhelming gratitude for her best friend.... ROB THOMAS she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the... PAULO COELHO It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I... JOHN GREEN She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see t... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, ... SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Everything she heard, everything she saw seemed to be in disagreement with her own manner of underst... OCTAVE MIRBEAU If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't ... TANA FRENCH She places in this young man all the desire and all the hope that she yearns for in her life, which ... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING ...he lives for her carrying her image in his heart and toiling for her all her days. JAMES RUSSELL MILLER Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her so... GASTON LEROUX Despite what was happening, Victoria loved Alyssa. Loved her enough to kill her. HOLLOW RYAN It was once him and her, but she lost him and thought for a long time she wanted him back more then ... AMBER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I killed her once and died for her many times and I still have nothing to show for it. I always sear... ANN BRASHARES Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo... JANE AUSTEN What is this all about,' asked Sai, but her mouth couldn't address her ear in the tumult; her mind c... KIRAN DESAI Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe... CASSANDRA CLARE When she fucked up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified. into paralysis, she collapsed... JOHN GREEN Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her... JEAN ELSON The search for truth is not yet over, the president and her allies will be haunted by the accusation... FRANCIS ESCUDERO The search for truth is not yet over, the President and her allies will be haunted by the accusation... FRANCIS ESCUDERO Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spel... NICHOLAS SPARKS Her eyes widen and she shoves me back and then there's a space between us, enough to paralyze me wit... COURTNEY SUMMERS This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the ... CARSON MCCULLERS She had never been in love before. She'd tried to save herself the pain, but all her pretending and ... MELANIE DICKERSON He still loved her—and every moment that he didn’t have her hurt him deeply. That was why he’d... LAUREN KATE She's letting him pray for her problems but not for her, ELEANOR COOPER There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance foo... BOURKE COEKRAN I think it sets up well for her. Her post [nine] is good, and I'd like to see her lay off the pace?m... JULIO CANANI Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summari... TRACY CHEVALIER She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
And I loved her for having pitied them. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE On more than one occasion, they've wanted for Jane to adopt them. They just loved her. DANA CAñEDO I loved her too much to break her heart, one reason we didn't start any relationship at all. She des... OLASOT Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant... NANCY KRESS I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced ... LAURA MARLING Her hopeless love swelled up inside her, crying for an outlet, and all she could do was hold it sile... LYN DUCOTY His body was urgent against her, and she didn't have the heart anymore to fight...She saw his eyes, ... D.H. LAWRENCE All of us - all who knew her - felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beaut... TONI MORRISON I want to get to know this other me, but I don't know her well enough yet to be her all the time LAURA LEE GULLEDGE I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of ... PABLO NERUDA I’m still not good enough for a girl like her, but she’s back in my life and she needs someone t... KATIE MCGARRY Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's ... CASSANDRA CLARE Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... BETTY SMITH His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It wa... ALICE SEBOLD The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given ... SARAH FERGUSON In her experience all her friends relied,
Heaven was her help and nature was her guide. GEORGE CRABBE It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do eve... ROBERT M. DRAKE He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a v... BRIAN ANDREAS But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken fr... ERNEST HEMINGWAY She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would li... NICHOLAS SPARKS It was just a classic All-American performance, in terms of her aggressiveness and her willingness t... JOANNE P. MCCALLIE Yes. He saw her in his mind, exactly as she was. She bore him company with her pride, resentment, ha... CHARLES DICKENS Erin not having raced on pavement a lot and not having raced traffic and things like that, we felt t... RAY EVERNHAM No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... J.D. ROBB I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her ... HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strengt... VERONICA ROTH He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the... AYN RAND Eve woke, violently aroused. It was Roarke’s hands on her. She knew their texture, their rhythm. H... J.D. ROBB He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her l... FLANNERY O'CONNOR No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first time, before she had o... ANN PATCHETT They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her. ZORA NEALE HURSTON A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless an... ANN BRASHARES The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline... JOHN GREEN I miss Betty madly. I loved her. Whenever people talk about her, I get really nostalgic. There are p... AMERICA FERRERA To love her was to taste sweet surrender. For had she not entered his life, he would have sought the... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her. OSCAR WILDE
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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 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 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