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Sense and Sensibility QUOTES

Sense and Sensibility QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

3 " I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

4 " To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

5 " But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it? "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

6 " I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

7 " …told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered… "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

8 " 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. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

9 " And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

10 " You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

11 " To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

12 " ... and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify. It was censure in common use, and easily given. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

13 " Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

14 " Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbid -- a dagger to my heart. To know that Marianne was in town was -- in the same language -- a thunderbolt. -- Thunderbolts and daggers! -- what a reproof would she have given me! -- her taste, her opinions -- I believe they are better known to me than my own, -- and I am sure they are dearer. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

15 " Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

16 " Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable, that though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

17 " I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him than I am with any other creature in the world. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

18 " Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

19 " On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body was astonished at the opinion of the others. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility

20 " And here is my sweet little Annamaria,’ she added, tenderly caressing a little girl of three years old, who had not made a noise for the last two minutes; ‘And she is always so gentle and quiet—Never was there such a quiet little thing!’ But unfortunately in bestowing these embraces, a pin in her ladyship’s head dress slightly scratching the child’s neck, produced from this pattern of gentleness such violent screams, as could hardly be outdone by any creature professedly noisy. The mother’s consternation was excessive; but it could not surpass the alarm of the Miss Steeles, and every thing was done by all three, in so critical an emergency, which affection could suggest as likely to assuage the agonies of the little sufferer. She was seated in her mother’s lap, covered with kisses, her wound bathed with lavender-water, by one of the Miss Steeles, who was on her knees to attend her, and her mouth stuffed with sugar plums by the other. With such a reward for her tears, the child was too wise to cease crying. "

― Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility