Northanger Abbey Quotes
Works by Jane Austen, Gothic novels
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“From politics it was an easy step to silence.”
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“A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
“"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Mr. Tilney”
“The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing.”
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“"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature." - Isabella Thorpe”
“A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride., p. 284, 2013”
“Now I must give one smirk, and then we may be rational again. p. 50, 2013”
“Me?— yes; I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible., p. 268, 2013”
“"But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. ... it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.”
“If we do not have hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough., p. 294, 2013”
“But Mrs. Morland knew so little of lords and baronets, that she entertained no notion of their general mischievousness, and was wholly unsuspicious of danger to her daughter from their machinations.”
“Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. p. 52, 2013”
“As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it. p. 36, 2013”
“Prepare for your sister-in-law, Eleanor, and such a sister-in-law as you must delight in! Open, candid, artless, guileless, with affections strong but simple, forming no pretensions, and knowing no disguise.”
“His departure gave Catherine the first expermental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain., p. 448, 2013”
“It is probable that she will neither love so well, nor flirt so well, as she might do either singly., p. 302, 2013”
“You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds on happiness as possible., p. 356, 2013”