Edward Ferrars Quotes

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."

-Edward Ferrars”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manner were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I felt that I admired you, but I told myself it was only friendship; and till I began to make comparisons between yourself and Lucy, I did not know how far I was got.”
― Jane Austen

“I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else in my own way. Greatness will not make me so".”
― Jane Austen