Sense And Sensibility Quotes

Question 1

“Impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree”

Answer 1

Fanny - Identity (women)

Question 2

“Only be half-blood”

Answer 2

Fanny - Identity (women)

Question 3

“Only to sink deeper into a life of sin”

Answer 3

About Eliza - Identity (fallen woman)

Question 4

“Found her own happiness in forming his”

Answer 4

About Marianne - Identity (women), Rebirth

Question 5

“Had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister”

Answer 5

Original owner of Norland Park, Mr Dashwood. Women served men - Identity

Question 6

“Seen a great deal of the world”

Answer 6

About Colonel Brandon - Identity (identified by his military career)

Question 7

“His mother wished to interest him in political concerns”

Answer 7

About Edward - Identity

Question 8

“All his wishes centred on domestic comfort”

Answer 8

About Edward - Identity

Question 9

“I cannot be forced into genius and eloquence”

Answer 9

Edward - Identity

Question 10

“It has given me calmness for serious recollection”

Answer 10

Marianne - Rebirth

Question 11

“It would have been self-destruction”

Answer 11

Marianne - Rebirth

Question 12

“Marianne said not a word”

Answer 12

Rebirth

Question 13

“A wife, the mistress of a family”

Answer 13

About Marianne - Rebirth

Question 14

“She almost ran out of the room … burst into tears of joy”

Answer 14

About Elinor - Rebirth

Question 15

“Twilight walks” “given Marianne a cold so violent”

Answer 15

About Marianne - Rebirth

Question 16

“My happiness was never his object”

Answer 16

Marianne - Relationships (Willoughby)

Question 17

“Without a thought of returning it to her”

Answer 17

About Willoughby - Relationships (Marianne)

Question 18

“I think he would have drawn very well” “his mind is well informed”

Answer 18

Elinor - Relationships

Question 19

“It would be quite unkind to keep her on to the engagement”

Answer 19

Anne told Elinor that Edward thought - Relationships

Question 20

“He would not hear or [their] parting”

Answer 20

Lucy claims to Elinor - Realtionships

Question 21

“More advantageous” “the vanity of one had been so worked by the flattery of another” “securing every advantage of a fortune”

Answer 21

Lucy married Robert instead when Edward was cut off - Relationships

Question 22

“Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister’s sensibilities”

Answer 22

About Marianne - Sisterhood

Question 23

“Ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a gift”

Answer 23

About Marianne - Sisterhood

Question 24

“Upon Elinor therefore the whole task of telling lies when politeness required it, always fell”

Answer 24

Elinor and Marianne - Sisterhood

Question 25

“What is Miss Morton to us?”

Answer 25

Marianne supporting Elinor - Sisterhood

Question 26

“Seemed to think some apology necessary for the freedom of her sister”

Answer 26

Anne due to Lucy - Sisterhood

Question 27

“She does not know how to hold her tongue”

Answer 27

Lucy entrusted Anne with her secret leading to it being revealed - Sisterhood

Question 28

“Nor do anything else for me again”

Answer 28

Lucy vowed after Anne revealed her secret - Sisterhood

Question 29

“The misfortune of a private education” “advantage of a public school”

Answer 29

Richard hypercritical of Edward - Sisterhood

Question 30

“An earnest, and unceasing attention to self-interest”

Answer 30

About Lucy - Marriage (convenience)

Question 31

“Insufficient to outweigh that dread of poverty” “I was forced to play the happy lover to another woman!”

Answer 31

Willoughby - Marriage (convenience)

Question 32

“His heart was now open to Elinor” “her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them” “ I will be calm; I will be mistress of myself”

Answer 32

Elinor - Marriage (endurance)

Question 33

“”Mr Palmer took no notice of her” “Mr Palmer does not hear me”

Answer 33

Mr and Mrs Palmer - Marriage (gender)

Question 34

“The strange unsuitableness that often existed between husband and wife”

Answer 34

Marriage

Question 35

“The politeness of an employment does not always evidence its propriety”

Answer 35

Elinor - Social Expectations (reaction to the carriage)

Question 36

“Ventured to doubt the propriety”

Answer 36

Elinor - Social Expectations (reaction to the horse)

Question 37

When they go to London, Elinor is the only one to view it as anything “short of eternal”

Answer 37

Mrs Dashwood exhibits similar traits to Marianne - Motherhood

Question 38

“Famous you must be to satisfy all your family”

Answer 38

Mrs Ferrars placing pressure on Edward to succeed - Motherhood

Question 39

“Sir John was a sportsman, Lady Middleton a mother. He hunted and shot, and she humoured the children”

Answer 39

Motherhood (absent fathers)

Question 40

“If I don’t get one of you at least well married”

Answer 40

Mrs Jennings about the Dashwood sisters - Motherhood (matchmaker)

Question 41

“Reached an age suitable for dancing”

Answer 41

Mrs Jennings focus shifted to Margaret when she was old enough - motherhood (matchmaker)

Question 42

“Sink deeper into a life of sin” (older Eliza after divorce) “youth and innocence he had seduced” (younger Eliza with Willoughby)

Answer 42

Doubles (Fallen woman)

Question 43

“Silly and a great coxcomb” (Robert) “Gentlemanlike and pleasing” (Edward)

Answer 43

Doubles