Marianne Dashwood Quotes:

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

- Jane Austen

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

topic: Feelings, Language, Sometimes, Marianne Dashwood

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

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

topic: Book, Men, Feelings, Marianne Dashwood

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

- Jane Austen

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

topic: Heart, Acceptance, Duty, Marianne Dashwood

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

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

topic: Fate, Opinion, Favourite, Marianne Dashwood

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

topic: Time, Loneliness, Opportunity, Marianne Dashwood

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

topic: Love, Men, Literature, Marianne Dashwood

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

- Jane Austen

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

topic: Life, Heart, Suffering, Marianne Dashwood, Knowing Myself

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

topic: Sky, Blue, Want, Marianne Dashwood, Gray Skies

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

source: 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

topic: Men, Moderation, Should, Marianne Dashwood

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

- Jane Austen

topic: Cold Hearted, Ashamed, Sensibility, Marianne Dashwood

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

- Jane Austen

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

topic: Heart, Broken, Silence, Marianne Dashwood

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

- Jane Austen

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

topic: Inspire, Twenties, Pausing, Marianne Dashwood

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

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

topic: Life, Change, Opinion, Marianne Dashwood