Jane Austen: Herring

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”

“She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”

Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

“Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”

“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey (1817)

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

“No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.”

“Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.”

“She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.”

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.”

Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.”

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.”

Source: Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel

Jane Austen book Emma

Source: Emma

“Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”

“She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”

Source: Sense and Sensibility

“Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice