Anne elliot Quote by Jane Austen

“Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked…

— Jane Austen

“She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness…

— Virginia Woolf

“She did not really like her. She would not be in a hurry to find fault, but she suspected that there was no elegance,…

— Jane Austen

“If she had spurned gifts from fate or God or some other earnest substitute, she would never feel it in that way. She felt…

— Moore Lorrie

“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.”

— Francine Prose

“she had been interested in many things, but nothing had completely satisfied her; indeed, she hardly desired complete satisfaction. Her intellect was at the…

— Anton Chekhov

“She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain,…

— Thomas Harris

“Maybe she’d always wished to be beautiful and didn’t quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn’t say she was and more…

— Mona Simpson

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good…

— Terry Pratchett

“Her beauty had not blinded him to her shortcomings, but perhaps it had to her virtues”

— Robert Grede

“She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try…

— Jane Austen

“She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful…

— Feodor Dostoevsky