Jane Austen Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

  Jane Austen

  Romance, Youth, Natural

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 4

• Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

  Jane Austen

  Regret, Littles, Bears

  Jane Austen (2005). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.204, Prestwick House Inc

• No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

  Jane Austen

  Glowing, Years, Looks

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.196, BookCaps Study Guides

• Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Girl, Literature

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.29, Wild Jot Press

• it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

  Jane Austen

  Laziness, Youth, Sofas

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

• Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Blessing, Men

  1818 Persuasion, ch.1.

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