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A dreadful tragedy has taken place in Florence. Perhaps you will remember the painter Pontormo? I am told that among all the artists in which our homeland is so abundant, he was generally considered – during the period before you left Italy
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“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Pride And Prejudice
― Pride And Prejudice
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Ninety-Three
― Ninety-Three
“If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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