Marianne Dashwood Quotes

• And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

  Jane Austen

  Healing, Feelings, Language

  Jane Austen (2013). “Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition”, p.141, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Book, Men, Feelings

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Acceptance, Duty

  "Fictional character: Marianne". "Sense and Sensibility", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• 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

  Fate, Opinion, Favourite

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.230, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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

  Time, Loneliness, Opportunity

  Sense and Sensibility vol. 2, ch. 12 (1811)

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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.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Men, Literature

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

  Jane Austen

  Life, Heart, Suffering

  "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", 1995.

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• 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

  Blue, Sky, Looks

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• That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Moderation, Should

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.414, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Jane Austen

  Cold Hearted, Ashamed, Sensibility

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• What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Heart, Knowing

  "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", 1995.

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• Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Broken, Silence

  "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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

  Jane Austen

  Inspire, Twenties, Pausing

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.87

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• At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

  Jane Austen

  Life, Change, Opinion

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.217

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