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 Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:42 pm
As I have been reading Jane Austen's novels, I have come across numerous quotes which I especially liked, and wanted to remember. After searching the topics in this guild, I found no thread dedicated simply to quotes, which is why I am creating this one. In this thread, I would like to have members of the guild post some of their favorite quotes from Ms. Austen's novels. To keep it from becoming just a bunch of quotes, I would like to have people also provide feedback about the quotes that others have posted. However, I would like to ask people to please select the quote button in the upper left-hand corner of the quote that they are talking about, so as to avoid any confusion about what quote is being referred to.
Also, when posting a quote, please include the title of the novel that the quote is from; the page number and all other information is not required, as there are many different editions of the books.
If there are any questions, or you are unsure about something, feel free to PM me or leave acomment on my profile, as I will be able to read those sooner than I will a post left by people, though I will try to check the posts routinely, and add my own favorite quotes and feedback.
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:13 pm
"Whatever I do is done in a hurry..."
"Pride and Prejudice"
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:19 pm
"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love,..."
"Pride and Prejudice"
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:22 pm
"Nothing is more deceitful,..., than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
"Pride and Prejudice"
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:24 pm
"The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first objection in life is a joke."
"Pride and Prejudice"
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:25 pm
"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride- where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."
"Pride and Prejudice"
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:29 pm
"It was a subject, in short, on which reflection would be long indulged, and must be unvailing."
"Pride and Prejudice"
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:25 am
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid." - Northanger Abbey
"There is a stubborness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me." - Pride and Prejudice
"Follies and nonsense , whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can." - Pride and Prejudice
"Is not general incivility the very essence of love?" - Pride & Prejudice
"A woman, should she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as best she can." - Northanger Abbey
"Women fancy admiration means more than it does." "And men take care that they should!" - Pride and Prejudice
"This is a very nice day, and we are having a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh it is a nice word indeed! It does for everything!" - Northanger Abbey
(Can you guess my favorite Austen novels? xd )
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:03 pm
SakuraStar89 "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid." - Northanger Abbey "There is a stubborness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me." - Pride and Prejudice "Follies and nonsense , whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can." - Pride and Prejudice "Is not general incivility the very essence of love?" - Pride & Prejudice "A woman, should she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as best she can." - Northanger Abbey "Women fancy admiration means more than it does." "And men take care that they should!" - Pride and Prejudice "This is a very nice day, and we are having a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh it is a nice word indeed! It does for everything!" - Northanger Abbey (Can you guess my favorite Austen novels? xd ) I love that first quote you have. That's one of the one's I was planning on adding when I finished posting all my quotes from Pride and Predjudice. I've loved reading since I was litte, and have found that you can learn a great number of things just by reading.
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:30 am
"He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all. I have nothing either to hope or fear, and nothing to reproach him with."
Pride and Prejudice"
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:32 am
"I have this comfort immediately, that it has not been more than an error of fancy on my side, and that it has done no harm to anyone but myself."
"Pride and Prejudice"
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:37 am
"Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic; I do not know what to say to you. I feel as if I had never done you justice, or loved you as you deserve."
"Pride and Prejudice"
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:16 pm
"You wish to think all the worl respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of any body. I only want to think you perfect, and you set yourself against it. Do not be afraid of my running into excess, of my encroaching on your privelege of universal good will. You need not. There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it; and ever day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and one of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense."
"Pride and Prejudice"
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:20 pm
"...[he] is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who marries him, cannot have a proper way of thinking."
"Pride and Prejudice"
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:22 pm
"You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavor to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger, security for happiness."
"Pride and Prejudice"
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