Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey Quotes

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

How I hate the sight of an umbrella!

Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

What a revolution in her ideas!

A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride.

Young people do not like to be always thwarted.

…each found her greatest safety in silence…

She hated herself more than she could express.

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

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature

A loss may be sometimes a gain.

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

Te aseguro que no soy de las que quieren a medias. Mis sentimientos siempre son profundos y arraigados"...

…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

Biti dobro upućen u stvari znači lišiti druge mogućnosti da udovolje svojoj taštini, što će pametan čovek uvek nastojati da izbegne.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.