Consideration and Esteem surely follow.. Jane Austen

Consideration and Esteem surely follow command of Language as Admiration waits on Beauty.

Jane Austen

Profession: Author
Nationality: British

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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment.

It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.

Sally, or rather Sarah (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as far as she can?) must from situation be at this time the intimatre friend and confidante of her sister.

Any difficulties posed by lack of rooms, space or even beds should never be permitted to interfere with the demands of hospitality to family or friends. Something can always be contrived.

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment or are the result of previous study?

There could not be an objection. There could be only a most proper alacrity, a most obliging compliance for public view, and smiled reined in and spirits dancing in private rapture.

Marianne's abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinor's. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. She was generous, amiable, interesting: she was everything but prudent. The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great. Elinor.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

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