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Jane Austen

  • sherylmaesolo22has quotedlast year
    Keep your breath to cool your por­ridge,’—and I shall keep mine to swell my song.”
  • Mikey6305has quoted3 months ago
    Our importance, our respectability in the world must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia’s character. Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance and emptiness of her mind, wholly unable to ward off any portion of that universal
  • leninsickhas quoted6 months ago
    ticulate through her tears, "Tell mama," withdrew from her sister and walked slowly up stairs. Elinor would not attempt to disturb a solitude so reasonable as what she now sought; and with a mind anxiously pre-arranging its result, and a resolution of reviving the subject again, should Marianne
  • leninsickhas quoted6 months ago
    worthiest of men."
    "His character, however," answered Elinor, "does not rest on ONE act of kindness, to which his affection for Marianne, were humanity out of the case, would have prompted him. To Mrs. Jennings, to the Middletons, he has been long and intimately known; they equally love and respect him; and even my own knowledge of him, though lately acquired, is very consid
  • leninsickhas quoted5 months ago
    l established."
    "I know it is"—replied her mother seriously

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  • leninsickhas quoted5 months ago
    warm a sympathy—or rather, not thinking at all, I suppose—giving way to irresistible feelings, made me acquainted with his earnest, tender, constant

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  • leninsickhas quoted5 months ago
    Here, however, Elinor perceived,—not the language, not the professions of Colonel Brandon, but the natural embellishments of her mother's active fancy, which fashioned every thing delightful to her as it chose.
  • Manar Zouarihas quoted2 years ago
    "You may esteem him."

    "I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem and love."
  • Manar Zouarihas quoted2 years ago
    Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
  • Manar Zouarihas quoted2 years ago
    could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more!—And you, ye well-known trees!—but you will continue the same.—No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer!
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