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1、Memorable Quotes and quotations from Jane AustenJane Austen English novelist (1775 - 1817)Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey- But 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
2、 - Northanger Abbey- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.Jane Austen - Mansfield Park- Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or.of something else.Jane Austen - Em
3、ma- Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.Jane Austen - - Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?Jane Austen - from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814- Wisdom is better tha
4、n wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.Jane Austen - - What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.Jane Austen - - One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.Jane Austen - Mansfield Park- Everybody likes to
5、go their own way-to choose their own time and manner of devotion.Jane Austen - - What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.Jane Austen - Emma- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.Jane Austen - Mansfield Park- There will be little rub
6、s and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.Jane Austen - Mansfield Park- Nothing amuses me more than the easy
7、 manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen - Mansfield Park- It will, I beli
8、eve, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.Jane Austen - - We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.Jane Austen - Emma- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are
9、 in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.Jane Austen - Emma- Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.Jane Austen
10、- Northanger Abbey- Only a novel. 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 humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen l
11、anguage.Jane Austen - - To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.Jane Austen - Mansfield Park- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen - Mansfield Park- Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.Jane Austen -
12、- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?Jane Austen - Mansfield Park- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (opening lines)- It is a truth universally acknowle
13、dged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of
14、some one or other of their daughters.Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice- Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.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 - Letter to Cassandra
15、, 25 November 1798- An artist cannot do anything slovenly.Jane Austen - - One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.Jane Austen - Mansfield Park- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen - - I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.Jane Austen - Mansfield Park- I pay very little regard.to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.Jane Austen - Emm