Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
Jane AustenTag: marianne-dashwood
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
Jane AustenTag: time opportunity openness marianne-dashwood intimacy self-disclosure disposition
A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
Jane AustenTag: marianne-dashwood growing-old
But I must object to your dooming Colonel Brandon and his wife to the constant confinement of a sick chamber, merely because he chanced to complain yesterday (a very cold damp day) of a slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders."
"But he talked of flannel waistcoats," said Marianne; "and with me a flannel waistcoat is invariably connected with the aches, cramps, rheumatisms, and every species of ailment that can afflict the old and the feeble.
Tag: marianne-dashwood growing-old elinor-dashwood
Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.
Jane AustenTag: love literature quote marianne-dashwood elinor-dashwood sense-sensibility
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
Jane AustenTag: literature marianne-dashwood sense-sensibility
...the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane AustenTag: jane-austen marianne-dashwood sense-and-sensibility
Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
Jane AustenTag: love world classics jane-austen marianne-dashwood sense-and-sensibility
Every thing he did was right. Every thing he said was clever. If their evenings at the park included cards, he cheated himself and all the rest of the party to get her a good hand.
Jane AustenTag: jane-austen marianne-dashwood sense-and-sensibility willoughby
I cannot express my own abhorrence of myself. Whenever I looked towards the past, I saw some duty neglected, or some failing indulged. Every body seemed injured by me. The kindness, the unceasing kindness of Mrs. Jennings, I had repaid with ungrateful contempt. To the Middletons, to the Palmers, the Steeles, to every common acquaintance even, I had been insolent and unjust; with a heart hardened against their merits, and a temper irritated by their very attention. To John, to Fanny, — yes, even to them, little as they deserve, I had given less than their due. But you, you above all, above my mother, had been wronged by me. I, and only I, knew your heart and its sorrows; yet to what did it influence me? Not to any compassion that could benefit you or myself. Your example was before me; but to what avail? Was I more considerate of you and your comfort? Did I imitate your forbearance, or lessen your restraints, by taking any part in those offices of general complaisance or particular gratitude which you had hitherto been left to discharge alone?
Jane AustenTag: marianne-dashwood sense-and-sensibility
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