her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.
Jane AustenVanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
Jane AustenIt is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
Jane AustenTags: time opportunity openness marianne-dashwood intimacy self-disclosure disposition
The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring, necessity, had required to be sacrificed. Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment.
Jane AustenAt first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.
Jane AustenTags: attractiveness charm first-impressions
Obstinate, headstrong girl!
Jane AustenTags: humorous pride-and-prejudice
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.
Jane AustenEvery moment has its pleasures and its hope.
Jane AustenYou have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
Jane AustenWithout music, life would be a blank to me.
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