Jane Austen Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

  Jane Austen

  Friendship, Happiness, Being Happy

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.28, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Girl

  Jane Austen, J. B. Austen Leigh (1898). “Mansfield Park”

• Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Alarms, Looks

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.169, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

  Jane Austen

  Philosophy, Past, Thinking

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.279

• Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

  Jane Austen

  Names, Giving, Want

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

• What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Littles, Wealth

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.25, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Stupidity, Persons

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

• She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Men, Giving

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9

• There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Sorry, Giving

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.16, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• 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".

• Beware how you give your heart.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Heart, Giving

  Jane Austen (2005). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1190, Wordsworth Editions

• Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Preparation, Preparation For Death

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.145, BookBaby

• If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

  Jane Austen

  Good Luck, Men, Mr Collins

  Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.497, Penguin

• Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

  Jane Austen

  People, Giving, Judging

• Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Smirk, May

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.13, Wild Jot Press

• Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Sensibility

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.25, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

  Jane Austen

  Mistake, Stupid, Character

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Ignatius Critical Editions”, p.92, Ignatius Press

• If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Giving, Wish

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.458, Wordsworth Editions

• she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Giving, Mind

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.264, 谷月社

• her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

  Jane Austen

  Numbers, Giving, Silence

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.227, BookCaps Study Guides

• You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger Abbey”, p.118

• Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Hands, Two

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.13, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Long Ago, Should Have

  Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.46, Penguin

• Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Water, Relief

  Jane Austen (2015). “Emma: 200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.467, Penguin

• Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Thinking, Giving

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.24.

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