I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love.
Jane AustenThe removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another.
Jane AustenThere is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome
Jane AustenIn his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there
Jane AustenI have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong.
Jane AustenShe expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.
Jane AustenYou shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness.
Jane AustenTags: elizabeth
She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.
Jane AustenShe read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.
Jane AustenTags: reading
Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain.
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