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"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, More quotation on Love. |
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"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, More quotation on Friendship. |
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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
- Jane Austen, More quotation on Money. |
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"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
- Jane Austen. |
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"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong ?"
- Jane Austen. |
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"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, More quotation on Religion. |
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"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of."
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, More quotation on Love. |
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"I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, More quotation on Marriage. |
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"Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch."
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, More quotation on Time. |
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"One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy."
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, More quotation on Nature. |