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Post by LadyGeremia on Dec 14, 2007 20:45:50 GMT -5
I have many, but I must say the entire argument between Lizzy and Lady Catherine towards the end of Pride and Prejudice is classic. Especially the line I have listed in my profile. I love how Lizzy keeps her composure as Lady Catherine continues to lose hers. Even the way they fought back in that period was so genteel and elegant. I just love the swordplay with words. It's so insulting and yet so polite. Another one of my favorites is just about any line that Mrs. Bennett comes out with in the BBC version of P&P (with Colin Firth). The character she plays is so funny. I love when she is distraught about Lydia and she talks about her tremblings and flutterings and spasms and pains and beatings of her heart. I just laugh hysterically at that woman!  |
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Post by cosmoblue on Dec 14, 2007 20:53:14 GMT -5
I'll have to get back to you on this one. I have never read her novels before now and I am not finished with them all yet. So far I think it is the part i just read today in Northanger Abbey about how men care so little about what women wear. I only just read it 3 hours ago I can't believe that I can't remember it more accurately. I am sure that when I read over it again that I will have many many to share. I love Mrs. Bennett in the BBC P&P also, quite funny.
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Post by Miss Ida on Dec 20, 2007 4:10:09 GMT -5
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. ~ Jane Austen
Pictures of perfection makes me sick and wicked ~ Jane Austen
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Dec 29, 2007 16:08:51 GMT -5
I think Lizzy and her father, Mr. Bennet have some of the best lines in all of the books. The one about Mrs. Bennett's nerves being his good friend for 20 years, that's classic. I also like it when Jane Austen touches on how the young men are all proud and boastful about their carriages and barouches... two hundred years later, and nothing has changed except the addition of an engine and a paint job. What I love about Jane Austen is that she illustrates that no matter how different society was back then, people are essentially the same. I feel comfort reading her work. This painting does the same thing for me. Look at the room, it's a bloody mess, the family is hanging out and it's just... normal. I love that.  |
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Post by Goblin, esq. on Dec 30, 2007 1:00:29 GMT -5
What I love about Jane Austen is that she illustrates that no matter how different society was back then, people are essentially the same. I couldn't agree more; it's that people are essentially the same that makes her work so timeless. |
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Post by LadyGeremia on Jan 20, 2008 23:09:00 GMT -5
What a beautiful picture. I would love to live in a house like they had in the regency period. I just watched Northanger Abbey and the house was remarkable! I told hubby to build me one like that.  |
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Post by Val on Jan 21, 2008 12:24:48 GMT -5
I didn't have one before but now it's "That must be muslin!" or something like that.
You know, me being a fabric-[naughty word] and all.
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Post by catecalloway on Mar 12, 2008 20:19:16 GMT -5
The part I always paraphrase to people when I'm trying to bring Northanger Abbey to life is when Catherine is working herself up about the possibly terrifying contents of the mysterious chest in her bedroom at the Abbey: "...With this spirit she sprang forward, and her confidence did not deceive her. Her resolute effort threw back the lid, and gave to her astonished eyes the view of a white cotton counterpane, properly folded, reposing at one end of the chest in undisputed possession!"
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Post by maudelynn on Mar 15, 2008 11:54:22 GMT -5
Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.
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Post by ivory on Sept 11, 2010 22:03:17 GMT -5
I love the end of Chapter Five of Northanger Abby, when after saying that Catherine and Isabella read novels she expresses her dislike of authors who do not allow there heroines to read novels." for I will not adopt that ungenerous and
impolitic custom so common with novel-writers, of degrading
by their contemptuous censure the very performances,
to the number of which they are themselves adding--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, who, if she accidentally
take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages
with disgust. Alas! If the heroine of one novel be not
patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she
expect protection and regard? I cannot approve of it."
Theres much more such as this bit just a few paragraphs later
" there seems almost a general wish
of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour
of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which
have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
"I am no novel-reader--I seldom look into novels--Do
not imagine that I often read novels--It is really
very well for a novel." Such is the common cant.
"And what are you reading, Miss--?" "Oh! It is only
a novel!" replies the young lady, while she lays down her
book with affected indifference, or momentary shame.
"It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short,
only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind
are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of
human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties,
the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed
to the world in the best-chosen language."
I beleive its about a page and a half of her talking like this and It just expresses Janes personality so much! It feels like shes having a conversation with you.
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? ~ Jane Austen 
