Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence.
Jane Austenafter all that is bewitching in the idea of a single and constant attachment, and all that can be said of one's happiness depending entirely on any particular person, it is not meant--it is not fit--it is not possible that it should be so. --Edward will marry Lucy
Jane AustenNothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.
Jane Austen...no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.
Jane AustenMots clés henry-tilney
It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle;
Jane AustenMots clés psychology
I see your face in my mind’s eye under every varying circumstance of the day.
Jane AustenTill it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.
Jane AustenMots clés morals
It is truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a large fortune is in want of a wife!
Jane Austen... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.
Jane AustenMots clés strange search cause
As for any society in Portsmouth, that could at all make amends for deficiencies at home, there were none within the circle of her father's and mother's acquaintance to afford her the smallest satisfaction: she saw nobody in whose favour she could wish to overcome her own shyness and reserve. The men appeared to her all coarse, the women all pert, everybody underbred; and she gave as little contentment as she received from introductions either to old or new acquaintance. The young ladies who approached her at first with some respect, in consideration of her coming from a baronet's family, were soon offended by what they termed "airs"; for, as she neither played on the pianoforte nor wore fine pelisses, they could, on farther observation, admit no right of superiority.
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