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- “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.
- “If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.
- “I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.
- “Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.
Jun 15, 2022 · Get all the best Sense and Sensibility quotes from the book by Jane Austen about love, family, social class, gender, reality, and of course… sense and, well, sensibility. First published in 1811 Sense and Sensibility was Jane Austen’s first classic romance novel. It’s the story of two different sisters, Elinor Dashwood and Marianne ...
Chapter 37 Quotes. "If such is your way of thinking," said Marianne, "if the loss of what is most valued is so easily to be made up by something else, your resolution, your self-command, are, perhaps, a little less to be wondered at.—They are brought more within my comprehension."
Recommended quote pages. #2: “It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.” #3: “When I fall in love, it will be forever.”.
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- Books, Books, Books
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- Shyness & Social Anxiety
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!” “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” “For...
“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.” “She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.”
“‘It is not everyone,’ said Elinor, ‘who has your passion for dead leaves.’” “Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
“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.”
“And books!—Thomson, Cowper, Scott—she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree.” “And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be a...
“I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.” “Mine is a misery which nothing can do away.” “Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning.” “To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect…”
“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is goi...
“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.” “It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do.”
“A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.”
“Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so. You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy.
Fanny Dashwood to her husband. 'I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.'. Mrs. Dashwood to Elinor. 'I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'. 'The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.'.
