Jane Austen's Character Descriptions

"________ was a good-looking man about forty.[...]His countenance was thoroughly good-humoured; and his manners were as friendly as his style of letter."

"_______ was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character."

"'Fifty thousand pounds, my dear. Did you ever see her? A smart, stylish girl they say, but not handsome. I remember her aunt very well, Biddy Henshawe.'"

The Honourable _______, this new friend, had not much to recommend him beyond habits of fashion and expense, and being the younger son of a lord with a tolerable independence"

"he was an indolent man, who lived only to eat, drink, and play at cards"

"She was short, plump, and fair, with a fine bloom, blue eyes, light hair, regular features, and a look of great sweetness, and, before the end of the evening, [name removed] was as much pleased with her manners as her person, and quite determined to continue the acquaintance."

"She had a cultivated mind, and was, generally speaking, rational and consistent - but she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them."

"______ was one of that numerous class of females, whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them [...] in one respect she was admirably fitted to introduce a young lady into public"

"though the vicarage of [name removed] was not very large, he was known to have some independent property; and she thought very highly of him as a good-humoured, well-meaning, respectable young man"