Jane Austen: Trending quotes (page 21)

“She would tell you herself that she has a very dreadful cold in her head at present; but I have not much compassion for colds in the head without fever or sore throat.”

Jane Austen

Letter to Cassandra (1799-01-21) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

“He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him — goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening.”

Jane Austen

Letter to Cassandra (1813-09-23) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

“Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey (1817)
Works, Northanger Abbey

Country

“People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Works, Sense and Sensibility

People

“it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfield Park

“Your abuse of our gowns amuses but does not discourage me; I shall take mine to be made up next week, and the more I look at it the better it pleases me. My cloak came on Tuesday, and, though I expected a good deal, the beauty of the lace astonished me. It is too handsome to be worn — almost too handsome to be looked at.”

Jane Austen

Letter to Cassandra (November 1800) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Beauty

“…from politics, it was an easy step to silence.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey (1817)
Works, Northanger Abbey

Silence

“We spent Friday evening with our friends at the boarding-house, and our curiosity was gratified by the sight of their fellow-inmates, Mrs. Drew and Miss Hook, Mr. Wynne and Mr. Fitzhugh; the latter is brother to Mrs. Lance, and very much the gentleman. He has lived in that house more than twenty years, and poor man, is so totally deaf that they say he could not hear a cannon, were it fired close to him; having no cannon at hand to make the experiment, I took it for granted, and talked to him a little with my fingers, which was funny enough.”

Jane Austen

Letter (1808-12-27) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Housing

“We saw a countless number of post-chaises full of boys pass by yesterday morning — full of future heroes, legislators, fools, and villains. You have never thanked me for my last letter, which went by the cheese. I cannot bear not to be thanked.”

Jane Austen

Letter to J. Edward Austen (1816-07-09) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Fools , Boy , Future

“We do not look in great cities for our best morality.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park (1814)
Works, Mansfield Park

“His having been in love with the aunt gives Cecilia an additional interest with him. I like the idea — a very proper compliment to an aunt! I rather imagine indeed that nieces are seldom chosen but out of compliment to some aunt or another. I daresay Ben [Anna's husband] was in love with me once, and would never have thought of you if he had not supposed me dead of scarlet fever.”

Jane Austen

Letter to niece Anna (1814-11-30) regarding characters in Anna's novel [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Love , Imagination , Idea , Dead

“Another stupid party last night; perhaps if larger they might be less intolerable, but here there were only just enough to make one card-table, with six people to look on and talk nonsense to each other.”

Jane Austen

Letter to Cassandra (1801-05-12) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

People , Stupidity , Night

“The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.”

Jane Austen

Letter to Cassandra (1808-06-20) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Friendship , Pleasure , Wine

“I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.”

Jane Austen

Letter to Cassandra (1799-05-17) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Fate

“Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice, natural, open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility which one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame.”

Jane Austen

Letter to Cassandra (1807-02-08) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Children , Age , Girl , Nature

“Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground—I screamed and instantly ran mad! We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an hour and a quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation.”

Jane Austen book Love and Freindship

Love and Friendship (1790)
Works, Love and Friendship

Sense , Madness

“You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.”

Jane Austen

Letter to Cassandra (1801-01-08) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

“I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.”

Jane Austen

Letter (1801-01-03) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Art , Personality

“By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon, for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.”

Jane Austen

Letter (1813-11-06) on ageing [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

Drink , Wine

“We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.”

Jane Austen

Letter (1801-05-21) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters

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