Emma - Quotes Flashcards
Emma’s description (C1)
“handsome, clever and rich”
Mr Woodhouse’s description (C1)
“Most affectionate , indulgent father”
Emma’s flaws (C1)
“ a disposition to think a little too well of herself”
Social Status of Hartfield (C1)
“The Woodhouses were the first in consequence. All looked up to them”
Mr Woodhouse about Mrs Weston
“Poor Miss Taylor”
Mr Woodhouse’s flaws (C1)
“Habits of gentle selfishness”
Mr W on the topic of servants
“James is so obliged to you!”
EW about herself (C1)
“fanciful, troublesome creature”
Mr K’s pastime about EW (C1)
“was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them”
the marriage of Miss Taylor (C1)
“to be settled in a home of her own, and how important to her to be secure of a comfortable provision”
EW on matchmaking (C1)
“It is the greatest amusement in the world!”
Mr K on EW’s matchmaking (C1)
“you made a lucky guess; and that is all that can be said.”
Mr W on marriage (C1)
“they are silly things, and break up one’s family circle grievously.”
Mr K on matchmaking Mr E (C1)
” a man of six or seven-and-twenty can take care of himself.”
On the topic of Mr Weston’s prior marriage (C2)
“they lived beyond their income”
youth marriages (C2)
“not the tyrannic influence of youth on youth”
Mr Weston’s opinion on FC (C2)
“a fine young man”
the Wedding cake (C2)
“There was a strange rumour in Highbury of all the little Perrys being seen with a slice of Mrs. Weston’s wedding-cake in their hands”
Mr W’s valetudinarian status (C2)
“What was unwholesome to him he regarded as unfit for any body”
Mr W’s sociability (C3)
“he could command the visits of his own little circle, in a great measure, as he liked”
opinion of Mrs Bates (C3)
“almost past every thing but tea and quadrille”
opinion of Miss Bates (C3)
“her own universal good-will and contented temper”
Mr W & Miss Bates’ relationship (C3)
“a great talker upon little matters, which exactly suited Mr. Woodhouse, full of trivial communications and harmless gossip”
Mrs Goddard (C3)
Mistress of “a real, honest, old-fashioned boarding school”
Mrs Goddard & Mr W’s relationship (C3)
“having formerly owed much to Mr. Woodhouse’s kindness, felt his particular claim on her to leave her neat parlour, hung round with fancy-work, whenever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside”
Harriet Smith (C3)
“the natural daughter of somebody”
Emma on HS’s friends (C3)
“The acquaintance she had already formed were unworthy of her.”
Mr W on supper (C3)
“He loved to have the cloth laid, because it had been the fashion of his youth, but his conviction of suppers being very unwholesome made him rather sorry to see any thing put on it”
HS opinion on EW (C3)
“actually shaken hands with her at last!”
original reason for EW liking HS (C4)
“had very early foreseen how useful she might find her”
comparison of Mrs W and HS (C4)
“For Mrs. Weston there was nothing to be done; for Harriet every thing.”
Mrs Martin on her son’s marriage (C4)
“whenever he married, he would make a good husband”
