Northanger Abbey Quotes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

topic:stupidity books pleasure

“when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

topic:society

“I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

topic:reading

“It is only a novel . . . or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and...”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

topic:reading

“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

topic:woman satisfaction

“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

topic:poverty wealth

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

topic:speech

“Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

topic:ignorance

“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

topic:wrong

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