 *
Sophia shrieked and fainted on the
ground--I screamed and instantly ran
mad--. We remained thus mutually
deprived of our senses some minutes,
and on regaining them were deprived
of them again. For an hour and a
quarter did we continue in this
unfortunate situation. Love and
Friendship (1790)
* It is a truth universally
acknowledged that a single man in
possession of a good fortune must be
in want of a wife. Pride and
Prejudice (1813)
* Happiness in marriage is entirely
a matter of chance. Pride and
Prejudice (1813)
* One cannot be always laughing at a
man without now and then stumbling
on something witty. Pride and
Prejudice (1813)
* One does not love a place the less
for having suffered in it, unless it
has been all suffering, nothing but
suffering. Persuasion (1817)
* It was, perhaps, one of those
cases in which advice is good or bad
only as the event decides.
Persuasion (1817)
* A large income is the best recipe
for happiness I ever heard of.
Mansfield Park (1814)
* An engaged woman is always more
agreeable than a disengaged. She is
satisfied with herself. Her cares
are over, and she feels that she may
exert all her powers of pleasing
without suspicion. All is safe with
a lady engaged: no harm can be done.
Mansfield Park (1814)
* We do not look in great cities for
our best morality. Mansfield Park
(1814)
* She was of course only too good
for him; but as nobody minds having
what is too good for them, he was
very steadily earnest in the pursuit
of the blessing... Mansfield Park
(1814)
* I speak what appears to me the
general opinion; and where an
opinion is general, it is usually
correct. Mansfield Park (1814)
* Let other pens dwell on guilt and
misery. Mansfield Park (1814)
* "I shall soon be rested," said
Fanny; "to sit in the shade on a
fine day, and look upon verdure, is
the most perfect refreshment."
Mansfield Park (1814)
* it will, I believe, be everywhere
found, that as the clergy are, or
are not what they ought to be, so
are the rest of the nation.
Mansfield Park (1814)
* It is a lovely night, and they are
much to be pitied who have not been
taught to feel, in some degree, as
you do; who have not, at least, been
given a taste for Nature in early
life. They lose a great deal.
Mansfield Park (1814)
* But there certainly are not so
many men of large fortune in the
world as there are pretty women to
deserve them. Mansfield Park (1814)
Paulo Coelho's Cards & Quotes
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*
One half of the world cannot understand
the pleasures of the other. Emma (1815)
* "I am afraid", replied Elinor, "that
the pleasantness of an employment does
not always evince its propriety."
Sense and
Sensibility
(1811)
* Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does. Emma
(1815)
* ...why did we wait for any thing?--why
not seize the pleasure at once?--How
often is happiness destroyed by
preparation, foolish preparation! Emma
(1815)
* Human nature is so well disposed
towards those who are in interesting
situations, that a young person, who
either marries or dies, is sure of being
kindly spoken of. Emma (1815)
* Surprizes are foolish things. The
pleasure is not enhanced, and the
inconvenience is often considerable.
Emma (1815)
* There are people who the more you do
for them, the less they will do for
themselves. Emma (1815)
* Ah! there is nothing like staying at
home for real comfort. Emma (1815)
* One has not great hopes from
Birmingham. I always say there is
something direful in the sound... Emma
(1815)
* To look almost pretty is an
acquisition of higher delight to a girl
who has been looking plain for the first
fifteen years of her life than a beauty
from her cradle can ever receive.
Northanger Abbey (1817)
* A woman, especially if she has the
misfortune of knowing anything, should
conceal it as well as she can.
Northanger Abbey (1817)
* Could they be perpetrated without
being known, in a country like this,
where social and literary intercourse is
on such a footing, where every man is
surrounded by a neighbourhood of
voluntary spies, and where roads and
newspapers lay everything open?
Northanger Abbey (1817)
* ...from politics, it was an easy step
to silence. Northanger Abbey (1817)
* It would be mortifying to the feelings
of many ladies, could they be made to
understand how little the heart of man
is affected by what is costly or new in
their attire. Northanger Abbey (1817)
* A very short trial convinced her that
a curricle was the prettiest equipage in
the world Northanger Abbey (1817)
* The person, be it gentleman or lady,
who has not pleasure in a good novel
must be intolerably stupid - "Northanger
Abbey" (1817)
Quotes by
Jane Austen - Letters
Quotes by
Jane Austen - Books:
Pride and Prejudice
(1813)
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Chapters 37 - 61
Sense
and Sensibility (1811)
Marilyn Monroe Love Quotes
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