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Jane Austen Quotes - Page 21

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Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

Heart, Sunday, Hands

Jane Austen (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)”, p.855, Jane Austen

Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.

People, Dancing, Savages

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

Children, Mistake, Compassion

Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë (2017). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abby, Persuasion, The Watsons, Sanditon, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship, The History of England, Lesley Castle”, p.261, e-artnow

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

Grateful, Meditation, Fearless

Jane Austen (1853). “Northanger abbey, and Persuasion”, p.285

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

Believe, Mrs Bennet, Faces

"Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 16, 1813.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Men, Way, Notion

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1249, Ageless Reads

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

Inspiring, Girl, Literature

Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.29, Wild Jot Press

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

Encouragement, Heart, Enough

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.17

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

Sound, Noise, Matter

Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.211, Infobase Publishing

It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.

Couple, Numbers, Rooms

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.80

It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

Sex, Circles, Differences

Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.423

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Book, Reflection, Stories

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1078, Wordsworth Editions

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

Book, Men, Feelings

Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

Heart, Giving, Mind

Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.264, 谷月社

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Life, Happiness, Being Yourself

Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.368

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

Men, His Love, Forget

Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.426

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Perfect, Wish, Contentment

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.919, BookBaby

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

Fever, Littles, Might

Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.232, BookCaps Study Guides

She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.

Girl, Heart, Boys

Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.635, Lulu Press, Inc

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

Doe, Widows, Remarriage

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

Men, May, Firsts

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.49

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Men, Prejudice, Kind

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.97

I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

Rain, Illustration, Ideas

Jane Austen (2016). “Jane Austen The Dover Reader”, p.516, Courier Dover Publications

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Mean, Turkeys, Myrtle

'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

Heart, Broken, Silence

"Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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