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Jane Austen Quotes - Page 29

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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Ignorance, Vanity, Knowing

'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

Men, Safety, Risk

Jane Austen (1993). “Persuasion”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Attachment, Being Real, Unjust

Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.157, Wild Jot Press

My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

Writing, Style

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

Death, Rude, Lovely

1816 Emma, ch.45. ee Goldsmith 361:47.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Inspiring, Love You, Men

Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.92, Wild Jot Press

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

Needs, Half, Dozen

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.155, BookCaps Study Guides

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

Grace, Cold, Persuasion

Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.216, BookCaps Study Guides

Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.

Love, Marriage, Doe

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

Grief, Sorrow, World

Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.150, Infobase Publishing

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Half, Body, Might

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

Daughter, Two, Widows

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.11, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

Done, Unjust, Merit

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.402, BookCaps Study Guides

Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.

Mind, Comfort, Given

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.190, Ageless Reads

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

Mother, Children, Demand

"Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 21, 1811.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

Writing, People, Mouths

Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.289, Oxford University Press

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

Morning, Night, Too Much

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.263, Wordsworth Editions

We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

Mean, Men, Vanity

Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.8

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

Marriage, Home, Men

Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.383

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

Pride, Men, Two

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.211, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Inspiring, Marriage, Women

Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.52

Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

Eye, Listening, Usual

Jane Austen (2015). “Northanger Abbey: Horror and Romance”, p.87, 谷月社

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

Stupid, Men, Years

Jane Austen (2014). “Mansfield Park”, p.40, Trajectory Inc

A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.

Two, Two Days, Reports

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.309

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.

Children, Play, Maids

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