Jane Austen Quotes About Perfection

Quotes about: Perfection

• And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

  Jane Austen

  Sick, Perfection, Wicked

  Letter to Fanny Knight, 23 March 1817, in R. W. Chapman (ed.) 'Jane Austen's Letters' (1952)

• It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

  Jane Austen

  Perfection, Receiving, Would Be

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.156, BookCaps Study Guides

• There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Son, Men

  Jane Austen (2017). “Jane Austen's correspondence and letters: The complete and definitive edition”, p.152, BoD - Books on Demand

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