Northanger Abbey Quotes

“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel

“Catherine- "How I hate the sight of an umbrella!"
Mrs. Allen- "They are disagreeable things to carry. I would much rather take a chair at any time.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel

“It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not, what they ought to be, so are the nation.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel

“Whether she thought of him so much, while she drank her warm wine and water, and prepared herself for bed, as to dream of him when there, cannot be ascertained; but I hope it was no more than in a slight slumber, or a morning doze at most; for if it be true, as a celebrated writer has maintained, that no young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel