Jane Austen Quotes About Disappointment

Quotes about: Disappointment

• There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

  Jane Austen

  Disappointment, Attitude, Expectations

  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.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• 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

• A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

  Jane Austen

  Disappointment, Successful, Promise

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.143, PDFreeBooks.org

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