Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1775 Death: July 18, 1817
I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me….
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!.
What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter..
A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again..
I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling o….
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without..
Nobody minds having what is too good for them..
I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to d….
Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard..
The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human..
My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?.
Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise..
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in..
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others ….
I would much rather have been merry than wise..
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment..
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hou….
“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”.
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him..
For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable..