Don't keep coughing so, Kitty, for Heaven's sake! Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.
Jane AustenWhere the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.
Jane AustenTag: love
Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not be set down as certain that he must be acceptable to every women he may happen to like himself.
Jane AustenNothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.
Jane AustenElinor saw, and pitied her for, the neglect of abilities which education might have rendered so respectable; but she saw, with less tenderness of feeling, the thorough want of delicacy, of rectitude, and integrity of mind, which her attentions, her assiduities, her flatteries at the Park betrayed; and she could have no lasting satisfaction in the company of a person who joined insincerity with ignorance; whose want of instruction prevented their meeting in conversation on terms of equality, and whose conduct toward others made every shew of attention and deference towards herself perfectly valueless.
Jane AustenIn nine cases out of ten a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
Jane AustenIt is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.
Jane AustenHe may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance..
Jane AustenI am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.
Jane AustenTag: historical-fiction
They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town,
Jane AustenTag: kindlehighlight
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