What Would Jane Do? (6)

Do you know how you are when you really like someone? Well, Jane Austen surely did know how to make her characters seem like they really like the man!

Chapter IV. If you really like him

~I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love. - Emma (1815)
~The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone. - Love and Friendship (1790)
~The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much! - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
~In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
~There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
~He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter so far we are equal. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
~To her own heart is was a delightful affair, to her imagination, it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
~There are such beings in the world... As the creature, you and I should think perfection... But such a person may not come in your way. - Letters 
~If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.- Sense and Sensibility (1811)
~To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. - Persuasion (1817)
~No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman only who can make it a torment. -Northanger Abbey (1817)
~How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue. -Pride and Prejudice (1813)
~There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison. -Persuasion (1817)
~She was convinced that she could have been happy with him when it was no longer likely they should meet. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
~You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope... I have loved none but you. - Persuasion (1817)
~Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing, but I have never been in love; it is not my way or my nature, and I do not think I ever shall. - Emma (1815)
~It is my unhappy fate seldom treat people as well as they deserve. - Letters
~This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ me, this feeling of every. Thing's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not. - Emma (1815)
~Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you. -Sense and Sensibility (1811)
~They parted at last with mutual civility and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
~It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other. Or which happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted. - Persuasion (1817)
~I lay it down as a general rule... That if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. - Emma (1815)
~When I fall in love, it will be forever. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
~To love is to burn, to be on fire.- Sense and Sensibility (1811)
~If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it. - Emma (1815)
~Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
~Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
~Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business. - Mansfield Park (1814)
~You mistake me, my dear. I have the utmost respect for your nerves. They've been my constant companion these twenty years. -Pride and Prejudice (1813)
~Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.-Persuasion (1817)
~I pay very little regard... To what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.- Mansfield Park (1814)

See you next chapter...

"We are all fools in love."- 

~Bella

What Would Jane Do? (5)

Do we, women, really know our man, our gentlemen? I don't think so! Jane Austen put a lot of little comments in each book! 

Chapter V. Get to know your gentleman

What strange creatures brothers are! - Mansfield Park (1814)
The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, " men never know when things are dirty or not;" and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, "women will have their little nonsense and needless cares." - Emma (1815)
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not. - Persuasion (1817)
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. - Emma (1815)
If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it. - Persuasion (1817)
With men he can be rational and unaffected,but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. - Emma (1815)
[He] is just the type of man... Whom everybody speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives.- Emma (1815)
He thoroughly knows his own mind and acts up to his resolutions: an inestimable quality. - Mansfield Park (1814)
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire. _ Northanger Abbey (1917)
There certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. - Mansfield park (1814)
One man's ways may be as good as another's by we all like our own best. - Persuasion (1817)
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
I could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine.- Sense and Sensibility (1811)
You are mistaken, Mr.Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Dare does not say that man forgets sooner than a woman, that his love has an earlier death.- Persuasion (1817)
From the first moment, I may almost say... I had not known you a month before I felt that  you were the last man in the world whom I could ever prevail on to marry.- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! Do not wish me such an evil. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
She did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything. - Persuasion (1817)
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own.- Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. - Persuasion (1817)

Next chapter will be more about loving him... Excited to read what Jane Austen thought of that subject....

"Pictures of perfection make me sick and wicked." - 

~Bella

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Did you look yourself in the mirror this morning? Did you take a good look? This coming chapter is for everyone! Don't always look at the word "women", if you are a guy and reading this, please take it for yourself as well!

Chapter IV. Check Yourself, Dear

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
I make no apologies for my heroine's vanity. If there are young ladies in the world at her time of life more dull of fancy and more careless of pleasing, I know them not. - Sanditon (1817)
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
One is apt, I believe, to connect assurance of manner with coquetry, and to expect that an impudent address will naturally attend an impudent mind.- Lady Susan (1794)
Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief. - Emma (1815)
Pictures of perfection as you know, make me sick and wicked. - Letters
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken. - Emma (1815)
Sense will always have attractions for me. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.- Northanger Abbey (1817)
Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. - Emma (1815)
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run, will certainly have the laugh on her side.- Letters
[She] is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own... But, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and give her a sort of distinction among her companions. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
All the privilege I claim for my own sex... Is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone. - Persuasion (1817)
Her character depends on upon those she is with, but in good hands, she will turn out a valuable woman. - Emma (1815)
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
She denied none of it aloud and agreed to none of it in private. - Emma (1815)

I hate to hear you talking... As if women were all fine ladies instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days. - Persuasion (1817)
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.- Persuasion (1817)
It sometimes happens that a woman is more handsome at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. - Persuasion (1817)
The woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
Give a girl an education and introduction her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. - Mansfield Park (1814)
She was sensible and clever but eager in everything; her sorrow, her joys, could have no moderation. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
She was determined, as she felt it be her duty, to try to overcome all that was excessive. -Mansfield Park (1814)
She felt that she could so much more depend on upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. - Persuasion (1817)
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart. -Pride and Prejudice (1813)
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. - Mansfield Park (1814)

See you next chapter... Which seems to be more for women, sorry, but please come and read! 


"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings." - 

~Bella

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Welcome back for more wisdom from Jane Austen! 

It's rather amazing how we can learn so much from a British author! I'm amazed! 
At her time a female writer wouldn't be consider writing at all, but her father helped the best he could for his bright daughter's success. Without him we wouldn't be here, today, reading her wonderful work! 

III. Mistress of myself
No one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do... Nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused and interested you because I was so unlike them. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
You must try not to mind growing up into a pretty woman. - Mansfield Park (1814)
As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions. - Mansfield Park (1814)
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other. - Emma (1815)
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. - Emma (1815)
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
We all have our best guides within us, if only we would listen. - Mansfield Park (1814)
I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. - Mansfield Park (1814)
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful,  I should not be shy. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have. - Mansfield Park (1814)
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Let your conduct be the only harangue. - Mansfield Park (1814)
My being charming... Is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming- one other person at least. - Emma (1815)
Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away... Till this moment I never knew myself. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. -Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint. - Mansfield Park (1814)

Chapter IV will be for everybody, so keep up with me as I read along the little book given to me by my mum. 
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to love one of my favorite authors much more everytime I read her piece of work. 


" There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. " 

~Bella

What Would Jane Do? (2)

Here comes the time to write about chapter II of the little book "What would Jane do?" 

I've been eager to write about it for a while now, and this time, the chapter is more for ladies than men! Don't be judgmental, Jane Austen is a woman so obviously she writes more for ladies... But it doesn't mean you can't read what I'm about to write! Please keep reading...

II. Good Impressions for Great Ladies

Every neighborhood should have a great lady. - Sanditon (1817)
One can never have too large a party. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
You are never sure of a good impression being durable. - Persuasion (1817)
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way- Emma (1815)
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
We do not look in great cities for our best morality. - Mansfield Park (1814)
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 (1817)
Those who do not complain are never pitied. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
There are some people who cannot bear a party of pleasure. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
One-half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. - Emma (1815)
I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London... I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Every man is surrounded by neighborhood of voluntary spies.- Northanger Abbey (1817)
It was a delightful visit; -perfect, in being much too short. - Emma (1815)
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. - Mansfield Park (1814) 

Sometimes one if guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
I have frequently thought that I must have been intended by nature to be fond of low company, I am so little at my ease among strangers of gentility!- Sense and Sensibility(1811)
I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, Impatient to restore everybody, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort. - Mansfield park (1814)
But 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. - Northanger Abbey (1817)
We are sent into this world to be as extensively useful as possible, and where some degree of strength of mind is given, it is not a feeble body which will excuse us- or incline us to excuse ourselves. - Sanditon (1817)

Hope you understood every single meaning as it could be challenging at times. Old English and their old saying... We won't be able to change that! 

The more I read what she wrote, the more I love how she express herself. Hopefully, I won't pick up on anything, I can deal with the British accent but not the writing! 

Next chapter will also be more for ladies... Mistresses... Keep checking for the next interesting chapter! 


" The more I know the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love." 

~Bella

What Would Jane Do?

Quips and Wisdom from Jane Austen

I've got this little book from my mum on my 20th birthday... It's little and full of wisdom! 

I've been reading it every day, one page at a time and I wanted to share with you what's have been reading because I believe everyone should take notes. Everyone meaning guys as well as women! 

Here is the first "chapter"... 

I. How to be happier than you deserve

Next week shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend. - Letters

Nobody minds having what is too good for them. - Mansfield Park (1814)

I wish , as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)

It is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible. -Emma (1815)

I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. - Pride and Prejudice (1813)

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! - Letters

We are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. - Mansfield park (1814)

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common. - Emma (1815)

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like. - Persuasion (1817)

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person who interest you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together. - Persuasion (1817)

In seasons of cheerfulness, no temper could be more cheerful than hers, or possess, in a greater degree, that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like. - Mansfield park (1814)

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience-- Or give it a more  fascinating name, call it hope. - Sense and Sensibility (1811)

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. - Letters

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give. - Emma (1815)

Next chapter will be coming soon... Keep your eyes open for more chapters and more wisdom!

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment." - 

~Bella