Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Quotes

• “She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignora...”
• “It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the ...”
• “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 ...”
• “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.”
• “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
• “[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”
• “I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”