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Quiz – In the words of Jane Austen

20 Jane Austen quotes – but from which of her most famous, wonderful novels?

 

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    Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

    • Mansfield Park
    • Emma
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    I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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

    • Emma
    • Northanger Abbey
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    I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

    • Emma
    • Sense and Sensibility
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    If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

    • Sense and Sensibility
    • Pride and Prejudice
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    A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

    • Persuasion
    • Pride and Prejudice
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    My idea of good company…is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

    • Persuasion
    • Sense and Sensibility
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    Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

    • Emma
    • Pride and Prejudice
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    Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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

    • Pride and Prejudice
    • Northanger Abbey
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    Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

    • Emma
    • Pride and Prejudice
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    Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

    • Mansfield Park
    • Sense and Sensibility
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    A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

    • Pride and Prejudice
    • Mansfield Park
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    It was a delightful visit; – perfect, in being much too short.

    • Emma
    • Persuasion
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    How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

    • Persuasion
    • Emma
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    The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

    • Northanger Abbey
    • Pride and Prejudice
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    The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

    • Pride and Prejudice
    • Emma
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    But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

    • Mansfield Park
    • Pride and Prejudice
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    The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

    • Pride and Prejudice
    • Sense and Sensibility
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    For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

    • Pride and Prejudice
    • Mansfield Park

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