Jane Austen: Trending quotes
Jane Austen trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
Dinner was soon followed by tea and coffee, a ten miles' drive home allowed no waste of hours; and from the time of their sitting down to table, it was a quick succession of busy nothings till the carriage came to the door, and Mrs. Norris, having fidgeted about, and obtained a few pheasants' eggs and a cream cheese from the housekeeper, and made abundance of civil speeches to Mrs. Rushworth, was ready to lead the way.
Misattributed
Source: Said by Fanny Price in a 1999 adaptation of Mansfield Park. Actual quote:
“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay
“Angry people are not always wise.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Letter (1811-05-31) referring to the Peninsular War [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
Variant: You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Source: Persuasion
“You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.”
Source: Mansfield Park
“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
Variant: It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Source: Emma (1815)
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
“my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
-Mr. Darcy”
Source: Pride and Prejudice