Jane Austen Quotes, Cousin Quotes, Mrs Bennet Quotes

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Cousin Quotes , Mrs Bennet Quotes

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Inspiring Quotes

I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Fate Quotes , Gowns Quotes

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Impossible Quotes , Silent Quotes

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Healing Quotes , Feelings Quotes

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Life Quotes , Party Quotes

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Children Quotes , Mistake Quotes

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Fate Quotes , People Quotes

Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Heart Quotes , Sunday Quotes

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Half Quotes , Literature Quotes

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Numbers Quotes , Giving Quotes

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Feelings Quotes

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Happiness Quotes

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Style Quotes

Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Doors Quotes , Joy Quotes

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Mean Quotes , Thinking Quotes

His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Feelings Quotes , Imagine Quotes

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Strong Quotes , Healthy Quotes

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 you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Mother Quotes , Pride Quotes

If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Girl Quotes , Education Quotes