336 Quotes About Jane-austen

Today we are less accustomed to look for universal norms in what we read ... partly because we tend to see life, and therefore literature, mainly in terms of individual experience. Jane Austen's own standards were, like those of her age, much more absolute; and as a novelist she presented all her characters in terms of of their relations to a fixed code of values. - Ian Watt "On Sense and Sensibility

Marion stared into his face. “Thank you.” She blinked back sudden tears. “Mr. Bradley, you’re swell. You’ve helped my family so much, and I never appreciated it before.”“Thank you.” Mr. Bradley returned her look, intensely. “I care for all of you. You’re some of the best people I’ve ever known.”Marion smiled and mumbled, “Mr. Sour-face.”“What was that?”“Nothing!” She grinned wider.He smiled back. It was a nice smile.

This could ruin all of Emmaline's plans. She could not have [the girl] fall for a farmer, especially one that couldn't afford a decent hat.

Pero es destino de toda heroína verse en ocasiones despreciada por el mundo, sufrir toda clase de difamaciones y calumnias y aun así conservar el corazón puro y limpio de toda culpa. La fortaleza que revela en esas circunstancias es justamente lo que la dignifica y ennoblece. En tan difíciles momentos, Catherine dió también prueba de su fortaleza de espíritu al no permitir que de sus labios surgiese la más leve queja.

¡Cuán mortificadas se verían muchas damas si de repente se percataran de lo poco que supone la indumentaria femenina, por costosa que sea, para el corazón del varón [...] Todo lo que consigue la mujer al intentar lucir más elegante es satisfacer su propia vanidad, nunca aumentar la admiración de los hombres ni la buena disposición de otras mujeres.

Louisa Musgrove is an idiot.

Jane, Jane, my dearest Jane!

She looked up at me with more animation. "Oh yes, indeed there is. I like playing with my kittens. I have three of them, Spot, Patch and Stripe. Spot has a black spot, but otherwise he is entirely white. Patch has a white patch on his back, and Stripe - ""Allow me to guess. He has a stripe?""Why, have you seen him?""No.

Janeism is a religion only in these two respects - reverence for the God head and adherence to the text.