Quotes About Dashwood

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

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

Jane Austen

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

Elaine White

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Jane Austen

#13. 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

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

Jane Austen

#15. She felt as if she had no bones, like a jellyfish, hooked from the sea. She walked slowly towards them, her ears ringing, but they ignored her. All except for Levi, who stood at the end of the bridge, his hands in his pockets, smiling.

Sanjida Kay

#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. God created everything by number, weight and measure.

Isaac Newton

#18. 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

#19. Who gave you a gun?'
'The army.'
'Why?'
'That's what the army does, Simon.

A. Ashley Straker

#20. I am eternal. I am the night. I am the day. I am forever. And who are you?"
"I'm Skulduggery Pleasant."
"Oh, hell.
(The Horror Writers' Halloween Ball)

Derek Landy

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

Jane Austen

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. All things are full of God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#25. I opposed the U.S. involvement in Lebanon. We ended up having to withdraw our marines after our barracks were blown up.

John Kasich

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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