Quotes Flashcards
Lines from Jane Austen Works
“It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do.”
Sense and Sensibility
“Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.”
Sense and Sensibility
“I could not be easy, if I had not been able to tell you… how ardently I admire and love you.”
Sense and Sensibility
“I am afraid… that I sometimes indulge my feelings too much.”
Sense and Sensibility
“I will be calm; I will be mistress of myself.”
Sense and Sensibility
“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”
Sense and Sensibility
“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.”
Sense and Sensibility
“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
“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
Pride and Prejudice
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
Pride and Prejudice
“My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
Pride and Prejudice
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
Pride and Prejudice
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
Pride and Prejudice
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain.”
Pride and Prejudice
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
Mansfield Park
“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
Mansfield Park
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
Mansfield Park
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
Mansfield Park
“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
Emma
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
Emma
“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
Emma
“Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.”
Emma
“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”
Emma
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Northanger Abbey
“There is nothing people are so often deceived in as the state of their own affections.”
Northanger Abbey
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.”
Northanger Abbey
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Northanger Abbey
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”
Persuasion
“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.”
Persuasion
“I am not yet so much changed.”
Persuasion
“All the privilege I claim for my own sex… is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”
Persuasion
“Where there is a disposition to dislike, a motive will never be wanting.”
Lady Susan
“I have never yet found that the advice of a sister could prevent a young man’s being in love if he chose it.”
Lady Susan
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
Jane Austen’s Own Words (From Letters and Essays)
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
Jane Austen’s Own Words (From Letters and Essays)
“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.”
Jane Austen’s Own Words (From Letters and Essays)
