Here is a list of 10 quotes from Jane Austen’s novels. If you know them, post which novel you think it’s from in the comments. Later, I will leave a comment with the answers. Just for fun. If you haven’t read that many of her novels (or you just aren’t a nerd like some of us) just enjoy the wisdom and wit that is Jane.
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!”
2. “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
3. “I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
4. “My idea of good company...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,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
5. “All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!”
6. “Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”
7. “Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”
8. 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.
9. “And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.”
10. “But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.”
Happy Reading!
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