Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1775 Death: July 18, 1817
I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me..
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of ….
it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it..
She wished such words unsaid with all her heart.
I walk: I prefer walking..
I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends..
To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is ….
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself..
It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemb….
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if….
Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing..
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering..
It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixin….
You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every ….
You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at..
And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there..
I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested..
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his yout….
Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess….
If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements wh….
We do not look in great cities for our best morality..