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Northanger Abbey quotes

Jane Austen

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“It is only a novel . . . or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and...” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of anybody else. Everything is so insipid, so uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object!” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“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.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“beware how you give your heart.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“The very first day that Morland came to us last Christmas—the very first moment I beheld him—my heart was irrecoverably gone.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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