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Jane Austen Quotes - Page 20

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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

Book, Reading, Should

Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger Abbey”, p.24

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Inspiring, Women, Knowledge

'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

Determination, Air, Ideas

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.225, BookCaps Study Guides

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

Strong, Healthy, May

Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.30, PDFreeBooks.org

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Love, Romantic, Long Ago

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.467, Wordsworth Editions

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Men, Thinking, Giving

1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.22.

There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

Pride, Trying, Way

Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.163, Penguin

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Mother, Wife, Mourning

Letter to Cassandra Austen, 17 May 1799

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

Children, Long, Prejudice

Jane Austen (2010). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.94, Giunti Editore

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

Quality, May, Return

Jane Austen (1852). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.285

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

Doors, Minutes, Rational

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.172, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

Presence Of Mind, Tongue, Sometimes

Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion”, p.188, Jane Austen

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

May, Individual, Difficulty

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.483, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

Work, Women, Rational

'Emma' (1816) ch. 13 (Mr John Knightley, of Mr Elton)

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

Girl, Men, Order

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Vanity, Pride And Prejudice Book, Folly

Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.166

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Numbers, Giving, Silence

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.227, BookCaps Study Guides

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Principles, Ease, Ruling

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.213, Wordsworth Editions

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Husband, Wife, Literature

Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.187, BookCaps Study Guides

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

Men, Forever, Would Be

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.346, BookCaps Study Guides

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

Thinking, Rooms, Eleanor

She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

Real, Thinking, Laughing

Jane Austen (1864). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.17

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

Should, Darcy, Happy With Him

Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.149

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

Character, Perception, Natural

Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.100, Infobase Publishing

I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

Thinking, Worthy, Amiable

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.21, BookBaby

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