Jane Austen Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

  Jane Austen

  Saying Goodbye, Desire, Lasts

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.151, BookBaby

• Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

  Jane Austen

  Kindness, Thinking, Judging

  Jane Austen “Pride and Prejudice”, W. W. Norton & Company

• My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Desire, Littles

  "Fictional character: Jane Austen". "Becoming Jane", 2007.

• The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Girl, Sex

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.69, Wild Jot Press

• Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

  Jane Austen

  Desire, Events, Satisfaction

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.182, Lulu.com

• He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.

  Jane Austen

  Pain, Heart, Past

  "Persuasion".

• She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

  Jane Austen

  Desire, Command

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

• But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

  Jane Austen

  Revenge, Integrity, Mind

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger Abbey”, p.182

• Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

  Jane Austen

  Disappointment, Names, Desire

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.182, Lulu.com

• She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Desire, Conversation

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.71

• You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an instant And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Heart, Giving

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