Quote by Jane Austen

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to…

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

“Catherine, who was extremely modest, had no desire to shine, and on most social occasions, as they are called, you would have found her…

— Henry James

“and firstly, let me beware of the fascination that lurks in Catherine Heathcliff's brilliant eyes. I should be in a curious taking if I…

— Emily Brontë

“In addition to what has been already said of Catherine Morland's personal and mental endowments, when about to be launched into all the difficulties…

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

“Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.”

— John Steinbeck

“I am Princess Anastasia of Creag Morden, but I belong to no one.”

— Vivienne Savage

“Heathcliff, if I were you, I’d go stretch myself over her grave and die like a faithful dog. The world is surely not worth…

— Charlotte Brontë

“For a moment I have the alarming thought that maybe I want heroines so I can be their best friend and loyal sidekick without…

— Samantha Ellis

“But there was about her the mysterious authority of beauty, a sureness in the carriage of the head, the movement of the eyes, which,…

— Edith Wharton