A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
| Mansfield Park |
“I do, I do like him, she replied with tears in her eyes, I love him
To complete the favorable impression, she then told him what Mr.Darcy had voluntarily done for Lydia. He heard her in astonishment”
(Pride and Prejudice)
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief
| Emma |
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine”“
(Northanger Abbey)
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
| Sense and Sensibility |
“Jane was therefore obliged to go on horseback, and her mother attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day. Her hopes were answered; Jane had not been gone long before it rained hard. Her sisters were uneasy for her, but her mother was delighted. The rain continued the whole evening without intermission; Jane certainly could not come back.”
(Pride and Prejudice)
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
| Pride and Prejudice |
Dear Anne,
I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never unconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice, when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating in. I must go uncertain of my fate but I shall return to follow your party as soon as possible. A word, a look will be neough to decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening or never.
(Persuasion)
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
| Persuasion |
(Persuasion)
To Miss..
My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings,
Lords of the earth! their luxury and ease.
Another view of man, my second brings,
Behold him there, the monarch of seas!
But, ah! what reverse we have!
Man’s boasted power and freedom, all are flown;
Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave,
And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone.
Thy ready wit the word will soon supply,
May its approval beam in that soft eye!
(Emma - Jane Austen)
Emma and Mr Woodhouse (Emma)
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
| Mansfield Park |
“You mean to frighten me, Mr.Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me? I will not be alarmed though your sister does play so well. There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened about the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me”
(Pride and Prejudice)
Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
| Mansfield Park |
