Mrs Dashwood Quotes

#1. I do not believe," said Mrs. Dashwood, with a good humoured smile, "that Mr. Willoughby will be incommoded by the attempts of either of MY daughters towards what you call CATCHING him. It is not an employment to which they have been brought up. Men are very safe with us, let them be ever so rich.

Jane Austen

#2. Had he been even old, ugly, and vulgar, the gratitude and kindness of Mrs. Dashwood would have been secured by any act of attention to her child; but the influence of youth, beauty, and elegance, gave an interest to the action which came home to her feelings.

Jane Austen

#3. That is what I like about you, Mr. Dashwood," she said. "You are so decisive. It saves me the bother of thinking for myself."
"That is what I like about you, Mrs. Dashwood," he said. "You are so sarcastic. It saves me the trouble of trying to be tactful and charming.

Loretta Chase

#4. Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy.

Jane Austen

#5. Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.
-Elinor Dashwood

Jane Austen

#6. But Mrs. John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself; - more narrow-minded and selfish.

Jane Austen

#7. Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet.

Emma Thompson

#8. I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal
about twenty-five, a witty control freak. I like her but I can see how she would drive you mad. She's just the sort of person you'd want to get drunk, just to make her giggling and silly.

Emma Thompson

#9. It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

William Hazlitt

#10. 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 Austen

#11. A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Jane Austen

#12. I am not the Library's child! I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom. To

Rachel Caine

#13. We never touched, but I made love to your mind.

Krista Ritchie

#14. Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

Heikki Kovalainen

#15. 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 Austen

#16. And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

Jane Austen

#17. Grayson Dashwood.
Those two words had just ruined what was turning into a good morning.

Elaine White

#18. Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

Jane Austen

#19. Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.

Natalya Vorobyova

#20. Enlighten yourself; you will find that the world is bright with your light.

Debasish Mridha

#21. I detest jargon of every kind, and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning. ~ Marianne Dashwood

Jane Austen

#22. 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 Austen

#23. You are my star in this dark, dark world that we inhabit.

Misty Daniel

#24. 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 Austen

#25. I'm very cute, you know. And I'm not sure you've heard, but I have five thousand pounds a year. I've taken a place in Boulder for the season. Miss Dashwood and her sister will vouch for my parentage.

Danika Stone

#26. It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

Charlotte Bronte

#27. Seconds later, or so it seemed to

J.K. Rowling

#28. Good God! Willloughby, what is the meaning of this? -Marianne Dashwood

Jane Austen

#29. Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.
Marianne Dashwood

Jane Austen

#30. 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 Austen

#31. My feelings are not often shared, not often understood - Marianne Dashwood

Jane Austen