Parenting Quotes by Jane Austen

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am…

— Jane Austen

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

— Jane Austen

never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as…

— Jane Austen

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.”

— Jane Austen

“We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead”

— Jane Austen

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

— Jane Austen

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all…

— Jane Austen

“Kitty has no discretion in her coughs," said her father; "she times them ill.”

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“supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and…

— Jane Austen

“Her daughters were eagerly called to partake of her joy. Jane resolutely kept her place at the table; but Elizabeth, to satisfy…

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Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day,…

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“It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood…

— Jane Austen

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment…

— Jane Austen

“Even their mother missed them—and how much more their tender-hearted cousin, who wandered about the house, and thought of them, and felt…

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“Elinor placed all that was astonishing in this way of acting to his mother's account; and it was happy for her that…

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“A young woman, if she fall into bad gands, may be teazed, and kept at a distance from those she wants to…

— Jane Austen

“Yes and I had heard it before. But what is that to me? If there is no other objection to my marrying…

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You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor…

— Jane Austen

“not take advantage of a widow or an orphan. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear…

— Jane Austen

Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz…

— Jane Austen

I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her…

— Jane Austen

“And Anne could have said much, and did long to say a little in defence of her friend's not very dissimilar claims…

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“To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of twenty-six and eighteen, is to do pretty well; and professing myself moreover convinced,…

— Jane Austen

“She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father; and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage,…

— Jane Austen

“You are fond of history! And so are Mr. Allen and my father; and I have two brothers who do not dislike…

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“She played a great deal better than either of the Miss Musgroves; but having no voice, no knowledge of the harp, and…

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“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation…

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“A few days ago I was at a private ball given by Mr Ashburnham. As my mother never goes out she entrusted…

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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

— Jane Austen

“Mr. Bingley and Jane remained at Netherfield only a twelvemonth. So near a vicinity to her mother and Meryton”

— Jane Austen

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother…

— Jane Austen

“Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution.…

— Jane Austen

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to…

— Jane Austen

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the…

— Jane Austen

“Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution.…

— Jane Austen

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if…

— Jane Austen

You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but…

— Jane Austen

“Aye, so it is," cried her mother, "and Mrs. Long does not come back till the day before; so it will be…

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“Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and…

— Jane Austen

“had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the…

— Jane Austen