Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane AustenTags: love world classics jane-austen marianne-dashwood sense-and-sensibility
Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James?
Jane AustenTags: jane-austen northanger-abbey
I am Emma Woodhouse. I feel for her, of her and in her. I have a different sort of snobbism, but I understand her snobbism. Her priggishness. I admire it. I know she does wrong things, she tries to organize other people's lives, she can't see Mr Knightley is a man in a million. She's temporarily silly, yet all the time one knows she's basically intelligent. Creative, determined to set the highest standards. A real human being.
John FowlesTags: intelligence jane-austen snobbery emma mr-knightley
It's a truth universally acknowledged...
Jane AustenTags: books literature jane-austen austen literary-quote
Every romantic woman dreams of Willoughby. However, every wise woman’s heart knows Colonel Brandon would take care of her when she was sick, love her when she was well and know her worth every day that she breathes.
Shannon L. AlderTags: love marriage relationships jane-austen common-sense sense-and-sensibility spouse
This made my father laugh. 'Mary made a cake, did she? Well, well. Better that than she should make a cake for herself, I suppose.'
Peter then burst out: 'Why must you always be making a game of Mary? 'Tis not fair; 'tis not sporting.
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Ah yes.' Peter's tone was scornful. 'And they must always be paid before the poor tradesmen's bills, mustn't they?'
'They must indeed. They are debts of honour.'
'Oh, Mary.' He leant over and kissed me quickly. 'What a lot we'll have to argue about after we're married.
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In suiting the action to the words, however, I perceived that the stars were all wrong.
That was my undoing. I had looked up unthinkingly, anticipating the familiar, and, finding it gone, began to cry like a baby. Whereupon Peter stopped the gig and took me in his arms, kissing me so that my face was soon sore both from kissing and crying.
Tags: love marriage jane-austen comfort pride-and-prejudice peter-bushell mary-bennet jennifer-paynter unfamiliarity
I lost the letter in rather embarrassing circumstances. We were to dine at Parramatta Government House that same evening, and Peter had come in early from harvesting the wheat, sitting down in all his dirt to read the precious missive. I sat beside him, fresh from my bath. And so handsome did my husband look, long legs sprawled in Dungaree trousers and frowning over my father's spiky hand, that I could not resist reaching out to smooth away the frown. He caught my hand to his lips, still reading, and then chancing to look up, and reading my face more swiftly than he would ever read the written word, pulled me onto his lap.
Jennifer PaynterTags: love jane-austen pride-and-prejudice peter-bushell mary-bennet jennifer-paynter
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.
Alexandra PotterTags: truth love dating jane-austen austen single
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