Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1775 Death: July 18, 1817
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives..
He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your ….
I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable..
Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else..
His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable..
I am not romantic, you know; I never was..
I must have my share in the conversation..
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to delibera….
Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces..
If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next..
Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention..
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort..
Let us have the luxury of silence..
All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes..
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelin….
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer..
You must be the best judge of your own happiness..
A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning..
She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors..
Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done..