Jane Austen Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Acceptance, Duty

  "Fictional character: Marianne". "Sense and Sensibility", www.imdb.com. 1995.

• There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

  Jane Austen

  Men, Emma, Resolution

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.91, Wild Jot Press

• I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

  Jane Austen

  Kings, War, Men

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.87

• It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.

  Jane Austen

  Dwelling, Evil, Anxiety

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.236, Sheba Blake Publishing

• I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

  Jane Austen

  Marriage, Dance, Country

• If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Safety, Risk

  Jane Austen (1993). “Persuasion”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin