Tag Archives: Jane Austen quotes

The Stories of Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Shannon Winslow

> “This is quite the season indeed for friendly meetings. At Christmas everybody invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather. I was snowed up at a friend’s house once for a week. Nothing … Continue reading →

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Call to Adventure

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Shannon Winslow

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be a heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against … Continue reading →

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Any Other Place

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Shannon Winslow

“Such a fortnight as it has been!” he continued; “every day more precious and delightful than the day before! – every day making me less fit to bear any other place. Happy those, who can remain at Highbury!” (Frank Churchill, … Continue reading →

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Close Relations

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Shannon Winslow

> “I do not mean to say that a woman may not be settled too near her family. The far and near must be relative, and depend on many varying circumstances. Where there is fortune to make the expense of … Continue reading →

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Older But Wiser

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Shannon Winslow

Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in … Continue reading →

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Good Company

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Shannon Winslow

“My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.” “You are mistaken … that is not good company; that is the … Continue reading →

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The Indignities of a Heat Wave

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Shannon Winslow

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance. So wrote Jane Austen in a letter – a bit of simple wisdom as true now as it was when she set it down on … Continue reading →

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The Pleasure of a Good Novel

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Shannon Winslow

“The person … who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid. I have read Mrs. Radcliffe’s works, and most of them with great pleasure. The Mysteries of Udolpho, when I had once begun it, I could … Continue reading →

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Rational Creatures

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Shannon Winslow

“I hate to hear you talking so … as if women were all fine ladies instead of rational creatures.” (Mrs. Croft to her brother, Frederick Wentworth, in chapter 8 of Persuasion) Although Jane Austen may not seem progressive to a … Continue reading →

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Polluted Shades

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Shannon Winslow

“Heaven and earth! – of what are you thinking? Are the shades of Pelmberley to be thus polluted?” Did you know that pollution is not a problem exclusively of the modern era? Lady Catherine de Bourgh, as you see from … Continue reading →

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