Georgiana Darcy's Diary Quotes

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young lady of rank and property will have packs of money- or land-hungry suitors yapping around her heels like hounds after a fox.”
― Anna Elliott, Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued

“It’s just that it seems to me that what is a terrible hardship to one person may seem trivially small to another, but that does not necessarily make the hardship any the less hard to bear for the one who suffers it.”
― Anna Elliott, Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued

“My affections truly were not engaged. It is only my pride that is hurt, not my heart.”
― Anna Elliott, Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued

“Work delivers us from three great evils: boredom, vice and want.”
― Anna Elliott, Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued

“I am very sure that she wished to believe it, at least—and it is frightening what lies people can make themselves certain of, just because they are determined to accept the lies as true.”
― Anna Elliott, Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued

“Your own thoughts can sound unfamiliar and strange when they are out there, spoken in the world, as though they have taken on a life of their own.”
― Anna Elliott, Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued

“Friday 22 April 1814 It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young lady of rank and property will have packs of money- or land-hungry suitors yapping around her heels like hounds after a fox.”
― Anna Elliott, Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued

“I do love dancing. I even like going to balls. It’s just the thought of one being given in my honour … of so many eyes being on me throughout the evening … of having to talk to so many people I don’t know very well, and having the whole assembly of guests look on while I lead in the first dance that makes me feel ice-cold.”
― Anna Elliott, Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued

“She has a way of fixing you with a look that seems to stab clear through to the bone, and always makes me feel as though the words were rocks lodged in my throat.”
― Anna Elliott, Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued

“Le travail éloigne de nous trois grands maux: l’ennui, le vice et le besoin.” Meaning, of course, Work delivers us from three great evils: boredom, vice and want.”
― Anna Elliott, Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued

“Words are strange that way, aren’t they? Your own thoughts can sound unfamiliar and strange when they are out there, spoken in the world, as though they have taken on a life of their own.”
― Anna Elliott, Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued

“It’s just that that is what music has always done for me, ever since I was quite small: given me a place to put the feelings that hurt most.”
― Anna Elliott, Georgiana Darcy's Diary: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continued