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- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. Northanger Abbey.
- Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. Mansfield Park.
- Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. Mansfield Park.
- 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.
- “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.
- “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.
- “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
- “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
Apr 8, 2022 · There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort." Emma. "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance." Pride and Prejudice "Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure." Mansfield Park "My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of ...
Feb 6, 2020 · Elizabeth, at this point in the novel, thinks that Jane is rather naive in her desire to assume the best of people like Mr. Darcy. She finds her sister’s stubborn good-will amusing, and silly. But Elizabeth’s laughter (as she indicates: “I hope I never ridicule what is wise and good”) is not totally unrestrained.
Famous quotes of Jane Austen. If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. . . . The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient—at others, so bewildered and so weak—and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!—We are to be sure a miracle every way—but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do ...
Sep 13, 2024 · 2239 likes. Jane Austen — ‘Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.’.
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Sense and Sensibility Quotes. “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”. ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility. “If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”. ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.
