Quotes About Family

Very true indeed, my dears, but you are blessed with wonderful memories, and your poor cousin has probably none at all.

He is a gentleman and i am a gentleman's daughter. so far we are equal.

Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen.

Y aunque no fue demasiado feliz en este mundo, encontró en el cumplimiento de sus deberes, en sus amigos y en sus hijos motivos suficientes para amar la vida y para no abandonarla con indiferencia cuando le llegó la hora.

As regularly as I can. But you recognize married ladies have never tons time for writing. My sisters can also write to me. They will have nothing else to do.

In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

Yes, sighed Anne, we shall, indeed, be known to be related to them! then

This brief account of the family is intended to supersede the necessity of a long and minute detail from Mrs. Thorpe herself, of her past adventures and sufferings, which might otherwise be expected to occupy three or four chapters; in which the worthlessness of lords and attornies might set forth, and conversations, which had passed twenty years before, be minutely repeated.

But consider your daughters. Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them. Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined

Mrs. Phillips was always glad to see her nieces; and the two eldest, from their recent absence, were particularly welcome, and she was eagerly expressing her surprise at their sudden return home

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown-up daughters

I shall be very well off, with all the children of a sister I love so much, to care about. There will be enough of them, in all probability to supply every sort of sensation that declining life can need - Emma Woodhouse

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if youdo.

But it is very likely that hemay fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.

But I tell you, Miss Lizzy — if you take it into your head to go on refusing every offer of marriage in this way, you will never get a husband at all — and I am sure I do not know who is to maintain you when your father is dead. I shall not be able to keep you — and so I warn you.

Elizabeth, that for some time all intercourse was at an end. But at length, by Elizabeth's persuasion, he was prevailed on to overlook the offence, and seek a reconciliation; and, after a little further resistance on the part of his aunt, her resentment gave way, either to her affection for him, or her curiosity to see how his wife conducted herself; and she

she could still moralize over every morning visit; and as she was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters' beauty and her own, it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much reluctance.

I do not believe Mrs. Long will do any such thing. She has two nieces of her own. She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her.

No more have I," said Mr. Bennet; "and I am glad to find that you do not depend on her serving you.

Its effect was most extraordinary; for on first hearing it, Mrs. Bennet sat quite still, and unable to utter a syllable. Nor was it under many, many minutes that she could comprehend what she heard; though not in general backward to credit what was for the advantage of her family, or that came in the shape of a lover to any of them. She began at length to recover, to fidget about in her chair, get up, sit down again, wonder, and bless herself.

I could not have supposed a niece would ever have been so much to me

Mary spoke with animation of their meeting with, or rather missing, Mr Elliot so extraordinarily. He is a man, said Lady Russell, whom I have no wish to see. His declining to be on cordial terms with the head of his family, has left a very strong impression in his disfavour with me.

Mrs. Phillips was always glad to see her nieces; and the two eldest, from their recent absence, were particularly welcome, and she was eagerly expressing her surprise at their sudden return home, which