Jane austen Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jane austen Northanger-abbey
“For although she had been, and still was, very much admired, she had got into the way of preferring unsatisfactory love affairs to any… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“She would not take more risks than she could help, and it was admiration, not love, that she wanted.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Don't give me your admiration, give me your love. Admiration passes, love endures. Also admiration comes with expectations. Love accepts some flaws.” — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.” — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Some things are just meant to be adored...to be truly appreciated for their beauty.” — Lori L. Otto Copy Share Image
“She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you needed to be an outsider to really appreciate how things worked. Otherwise you took it for granted.” — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
“She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Heartache, to her, coursed through everything--which was as it should be, since people needed it to make them kind.” — Rebecca Barry Copy Share Image
“She accepted things because there was nothing else to compare them too.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“It was a profound pleasure to her not to know what was coming next, provided some one whom she loved did.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“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… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“The celestial brightness of Pride and Prejudice is unequalled even in Jane Austen's other work; after a life of much disappointment and grief, in… — Elizabeth Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The milk of human kindness was kept often in the larder, and the tea served with lemon.” — John Halperin Copy Share Image
“Whenever you are transplanted, like me, you will understand how very delightful it is to meet with anything at all like what one has… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
“The heart is a strange thing," Evelyn said, staring off into space. "It can be broken easily and takes a long time to mend,… — Sarah Holman Copy Share Image
“At last, the details finally settled, Abbey found herself coming to terms with the inevitable: the whole lot of them would go to Cape… — Emily Ann Benedict Copy Share Image
“As he talked, I watched Emma and wondered what is to become of her. She is of an age to be married but she… — Amanda Grange Copy Share Image
“I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.” — George Knightley Copy Share Image
“Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Your powers of observation are formidable," Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.” — Stephanie Wardrop Copy Share Image