Jane Austen Quotes about Home

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We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

Jane Austen

Home, Feelings, Quiet

1818 Of the difference between women and men. Persuasion, ch.23.

We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

Jane Austen

Book, Home, Fate

1818 Of the difference between women and men. Persuasion, ch.23.

I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.

Jane Austen

Home, Hair, Sight

Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.25, Oxford University Press

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

Jane Austen

Clever, Home, Blessing

Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.2, MobileReference

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.

Jane Austen

Marriage, Home, Men

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

Jane Austen Quotes about Home

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