Jane Austen Quotes About Fate

Quotes about: Fate

• It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

  Jane Austen

  Fate, Men, Every Man

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.231

• We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Home, Fate

  1818 Of the difference between women and men. Persuasion, ch.23.

• You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

  Jane Austen

  Fate, People, Unhappy

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.32, Oxford University Press

• We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.

  Jane Austen

  Fate, Merit, Helping

  Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion”, p.273, Jane Austen

• Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

  Jane Austen

  Fate, Opinion, Favourite

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.230, Wordsworth Editions

• I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

  Jane Austen

  Fate, Gowns, Impatient

  Jane Austen, Vivien Jones (2004). “Selected Letters”, p.30, Oxford University Press, USA

• If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Education, Book

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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