--- title: "14 Catherine Quotes By Jane Austen" description: "14 Catherine quotes by Jane Austen. Plus more from Jane Austen and more Catherine sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/jane-austen-39_three-sons_and-what-is-more-remarkable-with-a-good_2122617.jpg" --- > [“and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution. She had three sons before Catherine was born;”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/and-what-is-more-remarkable-with-a-good-constitution-she-had-three/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70b/jane-austen-39_three-sons_and-what-is-more-remarkable-with-a-good_2122617.jpg) > [“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/no-man-is-offended-by-another-man-s-admiration-of-the-woman-he-loves/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e4/jane-austen-39_another-man_no-man-is-offended-by-another-man-s-admi_1684621.jpg) > [ Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and \[Henry\] looked as if he was aware of it. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/catherine-had-never-wanted-comfort-more-and-henry-looked-as-if-he-was/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f71/jane-austen-39_comfort_catherine-had-never-wanted-comfort-more_1395661.jpg) > [“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/no-one-who-had-ever-seen-catherine-morland-in-her-infancy-would-have-2/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a22/jane-austen-39_catherine_no-one-who-had-ever-seen-catherine-morla_332281.jpg) > [Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/catherine-hoped-at-least-to-pass-uncensured-through-the-crowd-as-for/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f05/jane-austen-39_admiration_catherine-hoped-at-least-to-pass-uncensu_3137641.jpg) > [“Oh! My sweet Catherine, in your generous heart I know it would signify nothing; but we must not expect such disinterestedness in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/oh-my-sweet-catherine-in-your-generous-heart-i-know-it-would-signify/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca3/jane-austen-39_catherine_oh-my-sweet-catherine-in-your-generous-h_661379.jpg) > [But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/but-catherine-did-not-know-her-own-advantages-did-not-know-that-a/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f4/jane-austen-39_advantage_but-catherine-did-not-know-her-own-advan_1847576.jpg) > [“Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/her-mother-was-a-woman-of-useful-plain-sense-with-a-good-temper-and/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b93/jane-austen-39_mother_her-mother-was-a-woman-of-useful-plain-s_1153829.jpg) > [“Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/her-mother-was-a-woman-of-useful-plain-sense-with-a-good-temper-and-2/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7c/jane-austen-39_mother_her-mother-was-a-woman-of-useful-plain-s_1659953.jpg) > [“The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/the-anxiety-which-in-this-state-of-their-attachment-must-be-the/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e67/jane-austen-39_anxiety_the-anxiety-which-in-this-state-of-their_1523708.jpg) > [“It is always good for young people to be put upon exerting themselves; and you know, my dear Catherine, you always were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-is-always-good-for-young-people-to-be-put-upon-exerting-themselves/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/199/jane-austen-39_young-people_it-is-always-good-for-young-people-to-be_1660542.jpg) > [“Lady Catherine was extremely indignant on the marriage of her nephew; and as she gave way to all the genuine frankness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/lady-catherine-was-extremely-indignant-on-the-marriage-of-her-nephew/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/153/jane-austen-39_marriage_lady-catherine-was-extremely-indignant-o_1178511.jpg) > [“had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/had-ever-seen-catherine-morland-in-her-infancy-would-have-supposed/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/284/jane-austen-39_catherine_had-ever-seen-catherine-morland-in-her-i_3205139.jpg) > [“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/no-one-who-had-ever-seen-catherine-morland-in-her-infancy-would-have-3/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/677/jane-austen-39_bad-heart_no-one-who-had-ever-seen-catherine-morla_1260824.jpg) ## Other authors on Catherine ## More by Jane Austen > [Let us have the luxury of silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/let-us-have-the-luxury-of-silence/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/how-earnestly-did-she-then-wish-that-her-former-opinions-had-been/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-is-very-well-worth-while-to-be-tormented-for-two-or-three-years-of/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [ “Everybody is taken in at some period or another. \[...\] In marriage especially. \[...\] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/everybody-is-taken-in-at-some-period-or-another-in-marriage/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/she-knew-that-what-marianne-and-her-mother-conjectured-one-moment/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/for-i-look-upon-the-frasers-to-be-about-as-unhappy-as-most-other/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/it-raises-my-spleen-more-than-any-thing-to-have-the-pretence-of-being/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/her-spirits-wanted-the-solitude-and-silence-which-only-numbers-could/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/but-in-such-cases-as-these-a-good-memory-is-unpardonable/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/the-pleasantness-of-an-employment-does-not-always-evince-its-propriety/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/such-squeamish-youths-as-cannot-bear-to-be-connected-with-a-little/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/i-must-tell-you-what-you-will-not-ask-though-i-may-wish-it-unsaid-the/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/lady-catherine-seemed-quite-astonished-at-not-receiving-a-direct/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/he-had-suffered-and-he-had-learnt-to-think-two-advantages-that-he-had/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) > [“Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/vanity-was-the-beginning-and-the-end-of-sir-walter-eliot-s-character/) [Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/catherine/jane-austen/#itemlist", "name": "14 Catherine Quotes By Jane Austen", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution. 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Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her. Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected, or poor, and a very respectable man, though his name was Richard—and he had never been handsome. 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She had three sons before Catherine was born; and instead of dying in bringing the latter into the world, as anybody might expect, she still lived on — lived to have six children more — to see them growing up around her, and to enjoy excellent health herself. A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number; but the Morlands had little other right to the word, for they were in general very plain, and Catherine, for many years of her life, as plain as any. She had a thin awkward figure, a sallow skin without colour, dark lank hair, and strong features — so much for her person; and not less unpropitious for heroism seemed her mind. She was fond of all boy's plays, and greatly preferred cricket not merely to dolls, but to the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush. Indeed she had no taste for a garden; and if she gathered flowers at all, it was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief — at least so it was conjectured from her always preferring those which she was forbidden to take. Such were her propensities — her abilities were quite as extraordinary. She never could learn or understand anything before she was taught; and sometimes not even then, for she was often inattentive, and occasionally stupid. Her mother was three months in teaching her only to repeat the \"Beggar's Petition\"; and after all, her next sister, Sally, could say it better than she did. Not that Catherine was always stupid — by no means; she learnt the fable of \"The Hare and Many Friends\" as quickly as any girl in England. Her mother wished her to learn music; and Catherine was sure she should like it, for she was very fond of tinkling the keys of the old forlorn spinner; so, at eight years old she began. She learnt a year, and could not bear it; and Mrs. Morland, who did not insist on her daughters being accomplished in spite of incapacity or distaste, allowed her to leave off. The day which dismissed the music-master was one of the happiest of Catherine's life. Her taste for drawing was not superior; though whenever she could obtain the outside of a letter from her mother or seize upon any other odd piece of paper, she did what she could in that way, by drawing houses and trees, hens and chickens, all very much like one another. Writing and accounts she was taught by her father; French by her mother: her proficiency in either was not remarkable, and she shirked her lessons in both whenever she could. What a strange, unaccountable character! — for with all these symptoms of profligacy at ten years old, she had neither a bad heart nor a bad temper, was seldom stubborn, scarcely ever quarrelsome, and very kind to the little ones, with few interruptions of tyranny; she was moreover noisy and wild, hated confinement and cleanliness, and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jane Austen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/no-one-who-had-ever-seen-catherine-morland-in-her-infancy-would-have-3/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/677/jane-austen-39_bad-heart_no-one-who-had-ever-seen-catherine-morla_1260824.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/677/jane-austen-39_bad-heart_no-one-who-had-ever-seen-catherine-morla_1260824.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/677/jane-austen-39_bad-heart_no-one-who-had-ever-seen-catherine-morla_1260824.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. 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