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Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

Top 10 Best Quotes

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

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”

“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”

“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”

“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”

“Beware how you give your heart.”

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