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Jane Austen
It is happy...
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing...
I have been...
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Let other pens...
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Source: Mansfield Park, Ch. 48
-- Jane...
If there is...
If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are sure to get out of it.
Source:...
Nobody can tell...
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never...
It may be...
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many...
In nine cases...
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
One has not...
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the...
In every power,...
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the...
We met ....
We met . . . Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be...
It was not...
It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to...
It is a...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a...
She was nothing...
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her...
One cannot have...
One cannot have too large a party.
Source: 'Emma'
-- Jane Austen, (Dec 16...
Where so many...
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be...
One half the...
One half the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Source: In...
Next to being...
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
Single women have...
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of...
One does not...
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but...
With men he...
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature...