The Complete Novels Quotes

“Well, I have settled the matter, and now we may all go to-morrow with a safe conscience. I have been to Miss Tilney, and made your excuses.”
― Jane Austen, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“siempre está comprando libros.”
― Jane Austen, Colección integral de Jane Austen: Emma, Lady Susan, Mansfield Park, Orgullo y Prejuicio, Persuasión, Sentido y Sensibilidad, La abadía de Northanger

“Every body’s heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health,”
― Jane Austen, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.”
― Jane Austen, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School--not of a seminary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems--and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity--but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price,”
― Jane Austen, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love; but the encounter of such lavish recommendations could not fail.”
― Jane Austen, The Complete Novels

“maid! and that’s so dreadful!”
― Jane Austen, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds.—We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.”
― Jane Austen, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen: The Complete Novels

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story.”
― Jane Austen, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“Every thing was safe enough and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.”
― Jane Austen, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“do not”
― Jane Austen, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“soon will happen. But two advantages will”
― Jane Austen, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen

“In revolving these matters, while she undressed, it suddenly struck her as not unlikely, that she might that morning have passed near the very spot of this unfortunate woman’s confinement—might have been within a few paces of the cell in which she languished out her days; for what part of the Abbey could be more fitted for the purpose than that which yet bore the traces of monastic division?”
― Jane Austen, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen