Creative Quotations from . . .
Jane Austen
(1775-1817) born on Dec 16
English novelist. "She was known as the "masterful miniaturist"; wrote "Pride and Prejudice," 1813; "Sense and Sensibility," 1811."
 
   
F
A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else."

R
'If it was not for the entail I should not mind it.' `What should not you mind?' `I should not mind anything at all.' `Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such insensibility.'
A
An annuity is a very serious business.
N
"All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."
K
"Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "An Uncommon Scold," by Abby Adams, 1989."
R: "(Mrs and Mr Bennet) Pride and Prejudice, Ch. 23"
A: "(Mrs Dashwood) Sense and Sensibility, Ch. 2"
N: "(Anne) Persuasion, Ch. 23"
K: "Emma," Ch. 34"



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