Quotes

Question 1

“It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do.”

Answer 1

Sense and Sensibility

Question 2

“Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.”

Answer 2

Sense and Sensibility

Question 3

“I could not be easy, if I had not been able to tell you… how ardently I admire and love you.”

Answer 3

Sense and Sensibility

Question 4

“I am afraid… that I sometimes indulge my feelings too much.”

Answer 4

Sense and Sensibility

Question 5

“I will be calm; I will be mistress of myself.”

Answer 5

Sense and Sensibility

Question 6

“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”

Answer 6

Sense and Sensibility

Question 7

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.”

Answer 7

Sense and Sensibility

Question 8

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

Answer 8

Pride and Prejudice

Question 9

“Till this moment I never knew myself.”

Answer 9

Pride and Prejudice

Question 10

“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

Answer 10

Pride and Prejudice

Question 11

“My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”

Answer 11

Pride and Prejudice

Question 12

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

Answer 12

Pride and Prejudice

Question 13

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

Answer 13

Pride and Prejudice

Question 14

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain.”

Answer 14

Pride and Prejudice

Question 15

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

Answer 15

Mansfield Park

Question 16

“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

Answer 16

Mansfield Park

Question 17

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”

Answer 17

Mansfield Park

Question 18

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”

Answer 18

Mansfield Park

Question 19

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

Answer 19

Emma

Question 20

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

Answer 20

Emma

Question 21

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

Answer 21

Emma

Question 22

“Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.”

Answer 22

Emma

Question 23

“It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”

Answer 23

Emma

Question 24

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

Answer 24

Northanger Abbey

Question 25

“There is nothing people are so often deceived in as the state of their own affections.”

Answer 25

Northanger Abbey

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Northanger Abbey

Question 27

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

Answer 27

Northanger Abbey

Question 28

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”

Answer 28

Persuasion

Question 29

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.”

Answer 29

Persuasion

Question 30

“I am not yet so much changed.”

Answer 30

Persuasion

Question 31

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex... is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”

Answer 31

Persuasion

Question 32

“Where there is a disposition to dislike, a motive will never be wanting.”

Answer 32

Lady Susan

Question 33

“I have never yet found that the advice of a sister could prevent a young man’s being in love if he chose it.”

Answer 33

Lady Susan

Question 34

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

Answer 34

Jane Austen’s Own Words (From Letters and Essays)

Question 35

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”

Answer 35

Jane Austen’s Own Words (From Letters and Essays)

Question 36

“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.”

Answer 36

Jane Austen’s Own Words (From Letters and Essays)