Jane Austen Quotes About Luck

Quotes about: Luck

• And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

  Jane Austen

  Luck, Triumph, Talent

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.8

• 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

• About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Good Luck, Years

  Jane Austen (2006). “Mansfield Park Volume I [Easyread Comfort Edition]”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

• A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

  Jane Austen

  Luck, Lucky, Talent

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.13, MobileReference

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