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Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.

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With a book, he was regardless of time.

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Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civ...more

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With a book he was regardless of time...

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For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day.

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I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

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Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured hers...more

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If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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There is no other enjoyment like reading

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The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the...more

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The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I bel...more

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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of her drawingup at various times of books that...more

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I have not yet tranquillised myself enough to see Frederica.

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She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Con...more