But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
Jane AustenIt is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.
Jane AustenI never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."
-Edward Ferrars
Tag: shyness chapter-17 edward-ferrars
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."
-Elinor Dashwood
Tag: sense elinor-dashwood chapter-17
The sooner every party breaks up, the better.
Jane AustenWe met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead
Jane AustenMy dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
Jane AustenThe older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad,—the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.
Jane Austen[…] no man can be a good judge of the comforts a woman feels in the society of one of her own sex […]
Jane Austenmy courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
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