Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Favorite Jane Austen Quotes


"That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!" -Pride & Prejudice

"And now nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection." -P&P (BEAUTIFULLY PUT)

"Those who do not complain are never pitied." -P&P

"What are men to rocks and mountains?" -P&P

"We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is worth knowing." -P&P

"Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischeif." -Emma

"My first doth affliction denote,

Which my second is destined to feel,

And my whole is the best antidote

The affliction to soften and heal." -Emma

"One cannot love a reserved person." -Emma

"...certainly silly things would cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. It depends upon the character of those who handle it." -Emma

"A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not matter."-Emma

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. There is nothing to be compared to it. Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the cleverness of head in the world, for attraction."-Emma

"A little quickness of voice there is which rather hurts the ear." -Emma

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,

And waste its fragrance on the desert air." -Emma

"What must be at last had better be soon." -Emma

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