Jane Austen Quotes About Blessings

Quotes about: Blessings

• Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

  Jane Austen

  Pain, Heart, Health

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.353, BookCaps Study Guides

• The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

  Jane Austen

  Blessing, Love Is, Habit

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.658, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

  Jane Austen

  Blessing, People, Care

  Letter to Cassandra Austen, 31 May 1811, after the battle of Albuera, 16 May 1811, in R. W. Chapman (ed.) 'Jane Austen's Letters' (1952)

• Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

  Jane Austen

  Clever, Home, Blessing

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.2, MobileReference

• I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Blessing, Perfect

• Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Blessing, Men

  1818 Persuasion, ch.1.

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