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Northanger Abbey Quotes
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- 1"My dearest creature, ...""My dearest creature, I have been looking for you this hour."
- 2"Mrs. Allen, not being at all in the habit ...""Mrs. Allen, not being at all in the habit of conveying any expression herself by a look, was not aware of it being ever intended by any body else."
- 3"Her diffidence ...""Her diffidence of herself put that out of her power; she could strike out nothing new in commendation, but she readily echoed whatever he chose to assert."
- 4"She ... was more than once ..."She ... was more than once on the point of requesting from Mr. Thorpe a clearer insight into his real opinion on the subject; but ... it appeared to her that he did not excel in giving those clearer insights, in making those things plain which he had before made ambiguous"
- 5"They parted - on ...""They parted - on Miss Tilney's side with some knowledge of her new acquaintance's feelings, and on Catherine's, without the smallest consciousness of having explained them."
- 6"Her arm was still ...""Her arm was still linked within Isabella's, though their hearts were at war. At one moment she was softened, at another irritated; always distressed, but always steady."
- 7"Miss Morland, he ...""Miss Morland, he is treating you exactly as he does his sister"
- 8Nice "oh""Oh! it is a very nice word, indeed! - it does for everything."
- 9"I cannot speak ...""I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."
- 10"I would not stand ...""I would not stand up without your dear sister for all the world; ... "My dearest creature, I am afraid I must leave you, your brother is so amazingly impatient to begin."
- 11"She could not avoid ...""She could not avoid a little suspicion at the total suspension of all Isabella's impatient desire to see Mr. Tilney."
- 12"She knew not how to ...""She knew not how to reconcile two such very different accounts of the same thing"
- 13"Catherine could not tell ...""Catherine could not tell a falsehood even to please Isabella"
- 14"Our opinions were ...""Our opinions were so exactly the same, it was quite ridiculous! There was not a single point in which we differed."
- 15""How could you deceive me so, ..."""How could you deceive me so, Mr. Thorpe? - How could you say that you saw them driving up the Lansdown-road? ... How could you say, you saw them driving out in a phaeton?""
- 16"Isabella, however, caught ...""Isabella, however, caught hold of one hand; Thorpe of the other; and remonstrances poured in from all three"
- 17The Thorpes are all ..."all equally acute"
- 18"Isabella could not be ...""Isabella could not be aware of the pain she was inflicting, but it was a degree of willful thoughtlessness which Catherine could not but resent."
- 19"The General, recovering his politeness ...""The General, recovering his politeness as he looked at her, spent the rest of his time in scolding his daughter, for so foolishly hurrying her fair friend"
- 20"The inexplicability of ...""The inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts."
- 21"As his intimacy with ...""As his intimacy with any acquaintance grew, so regularly grew their fortune."
- 22"He ... was talking with interest ...""He ... was talking with interest to a fashionable and pleasant-looking young woman, who leant on his arm, and whom Catherine immediately guessed to be his sister"
- 23"Catherine's expectations of pleasure ...""Catherine's expectations of pleasure from her visit in Milsom-street were so very high, that disappointment was inevitable"
- 24"Modesty ... is very well ...""Modesty ... is very well in its way, but really a little common honesty is sometimes quite as becoming"
- 25"Nothing could now be ...""Nothing could now be clearer than the absurdity of her recent fancies"
- 26"The General certainly had ...""The General certainly had been an unkind husband. He did not love her walk: - could he therefore have loved her?"
- 27"Something was certainly ...""Something was certainly to be concealed; her fancy, though it had trespassed lately once or twice, could not mislead her here."
- 28"And yet how many ...""And yet how many were the examples to justify even the blackest suspicions! "
- 29"She was sick of exploring, ...""She was sick of exploring, and desired but to be safe in her own room, with her own heart only privy to its folly"
- 30"Remember the country ...""Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are English, that we are Christians."
- 31"Henry's address, ...""Henry's address, short as it had been, had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late fancies than all their several disappointments had done."
- 32"Her folly, which now ...""Her folly, which now seemed even criminal, was all exposed to him"
- 33"How are the civilities ...""How are the civilities and compliments of every day life to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal?""
- 34"I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom, ...""I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom, so common with novel writers, of ... joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine."
- 35""Oh! I am delighted ..."""Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it."
- 36""Novels are so full ..."""Novels are so full of nonsense and stuff ... they are the stupidest things in creation.""
- 37""What, is it really ..."""What, is it really a castle, an old castle?"
"The oldest in the kingdom."" - 38""The person ... who has not ..."""The person ... who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.""
- 39""I read [history] a ..."""I read [history] a little as a duty, ... it is very tiresome""
- 40"Its long, damp ...""Its long, damp passages, its narrow cells and ruined chapel, were to be in daily reach."
- 41""Are you prepared to encounter ..."""Are you prepared to encounter all the horrors that a building such as 'what one reads about' may produce?""
- 42"She was not experienced ...""She was not experienced enough in the finesse of love, or the duties of friendship, to know when delicate raillery was properly called for, or when a confidence should be forced."
- 43"It requires uncommon steadiness ...""It requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world."
- 44"Her manners shewed ...""Her manners shewed good sense and good breeding;"
- 45"she was too ...""she was too young to own herself frightened."
- 46""What one means ..."""What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.""
- 47""She raised her eyes ...""She raised her eyes towards him more fully than she had ever done before."
- 48""In every power, of which ..."""In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.""
- 49"No young lady can ...""No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared"
- 50""In marriage, the man is ..."""In marriage, the man is supposed to provide for the support of the woman; the woman to make the home agreeable for the man ... But in dancing, their duties are exactly changed""
- 51"A woman especially, ...""A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it was well as she can."
- 52"""Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, ..."""Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet, and nothing in the world advances intimacy so much.""
- 53""Friendship is certainly ...""Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
- 54"The progress of the ...""The progress of the friendship between Catherine and Isabella was quick as its beginning had been warm"
- 55""There is nothing ..."""There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.""
- 56"usual cerem.....""usual ceremonial of meeting her friend ..."
- 57"Was it the part of ...""Was it the part of a friend thus to expose her feelings to the notice of others?"
- 58"A family of ...""A family of ten children will be always called a fine family"
- 59""where did you get ..."""where did you get that quiz of a hat, it makes you look like an old witch?""
- 60"Her father, at the utmost, ...""Her father, at the utmost, being contented with a pun, and her mother with a proverb"
- 61""Eleanor had obtained his forgiveness ...""Eleanor had obtained his forgiveness of Henry, and his permission for him to "be a fool if he liked it!""
- 62"In the joyfulness of family ...""In the joyfulness of family love every thing was for a short time was subdued"
- 63"She was tired of ...""She was tired of being continually pressed against by people"
- 64""Young men and women driving ..."""Young men and women driving about the country in open carriages! Now and then it is very well; but going to inns and public places together! It is not right""
- 65""I hate the idea ..."""I hate the idea of one great fortune looking out for another. And to marry for money I think the wickedest thing in existence.""
- 66"What would the Tilneys have thought of her, ...""What would the Tilneys have thought of her, if she had broken her promise to them in order to do what was wrong in itself"
- 67""It is not a trifle that ..."""It is not a trifle that will support a family now-a-days; and after all that romancers may say, there is no doing without money.""
- 68"When a young lady is to be a heroine, ...""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."
- 69"All have ... at least ... believed themselves to ...""All have ... at least ... believed themselves to be, in danger from the pursuit of some one whom they wished to avoid; and all have been anxious for the attention of some one whom they wished to please."
- 70""You will allow that in both [marriage and dancing], man ..."""You will allow that in both [marriage and dancing], man has the advantage of choice, women only the power of refusal""
- 71""The very first moment ..."""The very first moment I beheld him - my heart was irrecoverably gone.""
- 72""A woman in love ..."""A woman in love with one man cannot flirt with another.""
- 73""Real jealousy can never exist between them; depend ..."""Real jealousy can never exist between them; depend upon it that no disagreement between them can be of any duration. Their hearts are open to each other, as neither heart can be to you; they know exactly what is required and what can be borne; and you may be certain, that one will never tease the other beyond what is known to be pleasant.""
- 74"He must have been ...""He must have been dreadfully cruel to her!"
- 75"She was ass.... ""She was assured of his affection"
- 76Bath is full of ......."Dangers"
- 77Beechan Cliff"Noble hill"
"Picturesque" - 78Blaize Castle"Finest place in England"
- 79Northanger Abbey Expectation"Long, damp passages"
"Ruined chapel" - 80Northanger Abbey Reality"So furnished, so guarded"
"Modern" - 81Return to Fullerton"Rectory"
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