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Jane Austen Quotes about Giving

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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Names, Giving, Want

Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

Beware how you give your heart.

Love, Heart, Giving

Jane Austen (2005). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1190, Wordsworth Editions

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

Giving, Smirk, May

Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.13, Wild Jot Press

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Giving, Alarms, Looks

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.169, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Giving, Sensibility

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.25, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Giving, Water, Relief

Jane Austen (2015). “Emma: 200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.467, Penguin

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

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.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

Girl, Giving, Further Education

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.477, Wordsworth Editions

You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an instant And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

Happiness, Heart, Giving

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Giving, Pleasure, Sensations

Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.178, BookCaps Study Guides

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

People, Giving, Cheerful

Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.78, Wild Jot Press

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.

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

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

You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

Mother, Generosity, Giving

Jane Austen (2016). “The Letters of Jane Austen”, p.81, Jane Austen

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Inspiring, Sorry, Giving

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.16, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

Happiness, Giving, World

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Giving, Littles, Wealth

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.25, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

Giving, Nephew, Ifs

Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.311

He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

Giving, Stupidity, Persons

Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

Giving, Preparation, Preparation For Death

Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.145, BookBaby

If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

Believe, Giving, Wish

Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.458, Wordsworth Editions

She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

Pride, Men, Giving

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.

Giving, Feelings, Receiving

Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.422

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