Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table. Jane Austen More Quotes by Jane Austen More Quotes From Jane Austen A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her. Jane Austen ready imagine men I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages. Jane Austen punishment attachment mother I must have my share in the conversation. Jane Austen share conversation A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross. Jane Austen income mind may When I fall in love, it will be forever. Jane Austen falling-in-love forever fall I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy Jane Austen darcy library neglect “I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.” Jane Austen forlorn said thinking What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter. Jane Austen one-day may mean Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think. Jane Austen eye people thinking I have no talent for certainty. Jane Austen talent certainty His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable. Jane Austen imagine i-can feelings Time, time will heal the wound. Jane Austen wounds heal Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some Jane Austen fever littles might But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power. Jane Austen situation mind littles Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking. Jane Austen conceited silly men Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together. Jane Austen together night thinking You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough. Jane Austen eye heart men But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give. Jane Austen nephew ifs giving If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure. Jane Austen kitties leisure men I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. Jane Austen done silly people