Vanity, while seeking its own guilty triumph at the expense of another, had involved him in a real attachment, which extravagance, or at least its offspring necessity, had required to be sacrificed. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”, “I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”, “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. ", "It was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion; and upon Elinor therefore the whole task of telling lies when politeness required it, always fell. Sense and Sensibility Quotes Showing 1-30 of 387 “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature.
Everything he did was right. ", "Elinor had not needed ... to be assured of the injustice to which her sister was often led in her opinion of others, by the irritable refinement of her own mind, and the too great importance placed by her on the delicacies of a strong sensibility and the graces of a polished manner. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. 8216 likes. I require so much!”, “If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”, “Know your own happiness. Why don't he, in such a case, sell his horses, let his house, turn off his servants, and make a thorough reform at once. Jane Austen published Sense and Sensibility in 1811—it was her first published novel.She's also famous for Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and a number of other novels in the Romantic Period of English Literature.Here are some quotes from Sense and Sensibility. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.”, “There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.”, “I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. But he was now married; and she condemned her heart for the lurking flattery which so much heightened the pain of the intelligence. ", "Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death; and that was given.
Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”, “Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.”, “I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own.
If dancing formed the amusement of the night, they were partners for half the time; and when obliged to separate for a couple of dances, were careful to stand together, and scarcely spoke a word to anybody else.
", "On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.
Such conduct made them, of course, most exceedingly laughed at; but ridicule could not shame, and seemed hardly to provoke them. Sense and Sensibility ; Quotes; Study Guide. ", "A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
", "When he was present she had no eyes for anyone else. Like half the rest of the world, if more than half there be that are clever and good, Marianne, with excellent abilities and an excellent disposition, was neither reasonable nor candid. tags: love, requirements. I require so much!” ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility. ", "She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be. Society and Class Family Dreams, Hopes, Plans The Home Love Marriage Women and Femininity Language and Communication Competition Wealth. Always prudence and honour and duty. She now found that, in spite of herself, she had always admitted a hope, while Edward remained single, that something would occur to prevent his marrying Lucy; that some resolution of his own, some mediation of friends, or some more eligible opportunity of establishment for the lady, would arise to assist the happiness of all. I will be mistress of myself.”, “I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. ", "Elinor now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event, however certain the mind may be told to consider it, and certainty itself.
", "She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart.
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