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Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.


Jane Austen


#money #sense-and-sensibility #money

Even when there were good wars to write about, writers such as Jane Austen wrote novels concerning marriage. They usually went like this: 'You're being a real jerk.' 'Sorry about that. I was secretly helping you.' 'Oh, you're wonderful! And you have so much money! You're my new favorite cousin!' 'Let's get married." The End.


Dan Wilbur


#marriage

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book,' I said. He didn't hit me.


Emma Thompson


#books #jane-austen #language #movies #screenplays

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.


Jennifer Paynter


#embarrassment #jane-austen #jennifer-paynter #love #mary-bennet

Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it it very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have other think of us.


Jane Austen


#pride-and-prejudice #nature

He is blinded and nothing will open his eyes,nothing can,after having had truths so long before him in vain.--He will marry her and poor and miserable.God grant that her influence do not make him cease to be respectable!"---She looked over the letter again."So very fond of me!tis"nonsense all.She loves nobody but herself and her brother.Her friends leading her astray for years!She is quite as likely to have led them astray. They have all,perhaps, been corrupting one another;but if they are so much fonder of her than she is of them,she is the less likely to have been hurt except by their flattery.The only woman in the world,whom he could ever think of as a wife.....I firmly believe it.It is an attachment to govern his whole life. Accepted or refused,his heart is wedded to her for ever.The loss of Mary,I must consider as comprehending the loss of Crawford and Fanny.Edmund you do not know me.The families would never be connected,if you did not connected them. Oh!write,write.Finish it at once.Let there be an end of this suspense.Fix, commit,condemn yourself."-Fanny Price


Jane Austen


#jane-austen #mansfield-park #family

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.


Jane Austen


#serenity #jane-austen

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.


Jane Austen


#jane-austen

I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.


Jane Austen


#mr-darcy #pride-and-prejudice #respect

The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind.


Karen Joy Fowler


#money






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