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Jane Austen Quotes - Page 13

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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

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.

Mother, Pride, Mr Collins

'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 20 (Mr Bennet)

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

Sorry, Enough, Should

Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.162, Wild Jot Press

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

Games, Strive, Born

Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.215

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

Men, Doubt, Emma

Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.34, Wild Jot Press

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Heroines

Jane Austen, Richard Cronin, Dorothy McMillan (2005). “Emma”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

People, Giving, Judging

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Sister, Brother, Children

Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.208

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Inspiring, Attention, Delicacy

Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.157, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

Rain, Interesting, Departed

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.46, Ageless Reads

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

Nursing, Sick, Weakness

Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.351

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

Thank You, Daughter, Children

Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.31

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

Numbers, Enemy, Joining

Jane Austen (2005). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1089, Wordsworth Editions

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

Writing, People, Laughing

Jane Austen, Penelope Hughes-Hallett (1991). “My dear Cassandra: the letters of Jane Austen”, Clarkson N Potter Publishers

Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered.

Too Late, Late

Jane Austen (2010). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.280, Bethany House

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

Forever, Forgiving, Vices

"Fictional character: Mr. Darcy". "Pride & Prejudice", www.imdb.com. 2005.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

Love, Pride, Mrs Bennet

"Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austin (Chapter 34), January 28, 1813.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Pride, Loss, Laughing

Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.231, BookBaby

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Inspiring, Book, Men

'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23 (Anne Eliot)

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

Book, Reading, Talking

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad.

Ideas, Two, Breakfast

Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.49, Oxford University Press

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

Men, Emma, Resolution

Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.91, Wild Jot Press

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

Girl, Thinking, Giving

1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.24.

She was stronger alone.

Stronger

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.85, Wordsworth Editions

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on.

Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.1858, Delphi Classics

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

Blessing, Love Is, Habit

Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.658, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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