Jane Austen Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Influence, Constant

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.56, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Missing, Attention

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.256

• A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Children, Sick

  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.703, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Son, Years

  Jane Austen (2008). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.285, Penguin

• We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Wife, Mourning

  Letter to Cassandra Austen, 17 May 1799

• An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Pride, Mr Collins

  'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 20 (Mr Bennet)

• You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Morning, Children

  Jane Austen (2014). “Northanger Abbey (illustrated)”, p.90, Osmora Incorporated

• 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

• I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Attachment, Punishment

  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.92, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Wish, Next

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.26, Ageless Reads

• I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Believe, Night

  Jane Austen (2015). “Annotated Pride and Prejudice with English Grammar Exercises: by Jane Austen (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.329, Powell Publications, LLC

• You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Generosity, Giving

  Jane Austen (2016). “The Letters of Jane Austen”, p.81, Jane Austen

• Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Children, Demand

  "Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 21, 1811.

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