Jane Austen Quotes About Reflection

Quotes about: Reflection

• Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Companion, Self Talk

  Jane Austen (2014). “Mansfield Park”, p.74, Trajectory Inc

• Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Indulge In, Relief

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.128, PDFreeBooks.org

• When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Examination, Evening

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.242, BookCaps Study Guides

• They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Sorrow, Admitting

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.4, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Desire, Conversation

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.71

• Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Reflection, Stories

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1078, Wordsworth Editions

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