Emma Woodhouse Quotes

“It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,’ said he. ‘Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.’
‘Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“I cannot make speeches, Emma:”—he soon resumed, and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing. “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Ah! my dear, I wish you would not make matches and foretell things, for whatever you say always comes to pass. Pray do not make any more matches.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“I saw her answer, nothing could be clearer."
"You saw her answer! You wrote her answer too. Emma, this is your doing. You persuaded her to refuse him.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Nonsensical girl!' was his reply, but not at all in anger.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“And you cannot call me 'George' now?"
"Impossible!—I can never call you anything but 'Mr. Knightley.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“It was badly done, indeed!”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“He shook his head; but there was a smile of indulgence with it, and he only said:
"I shall not scold you. I leave you to your own reflections."
"Can you trust me with such flatterers?—Does my vain spirit ever tell me I am wrong?"
"Not your vain spirit, but your serious spirit.—If one leads you wrong, I am sure the other tells you of it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“...nu cred ca pot trai intre oameni care nu iubesc muzica. Nu pun nicio alta conditie, dar, pentru mine, fara muzica viata nu ar avea culoare.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Ah, iata, iar ma gandesc la el. Intotdeauna prima persoana la care ma gandesc! Cum ma mai prind asupra faptului!”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“...eu intotdeauna merit cel mai bun tratament, pentru ca altceva nu accept.”
― Jane Austen, Emma