Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.
Jane AustenNo: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.
Jane AustenThere certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.
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 Austen