The Jane Austen Quiz - Queries Around Quotes
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You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion on my poor nerves."
Which Jane Austen novel does this quote come from?
Which character speaks this quote: "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance"?
"______
was a widow with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world."
Who is the widow referred to in this quote?
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“I pay very little regard,” said Mrs. Grant, “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.”"
Which Jane Austen novel does this quote come from?
"M
oney can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned."
Whose opinion is this?
"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
Which character speaks this quote?
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“Very well. Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have. Four thousand a year is a pretty estate, and he seems a very genteel, steady young man, so I hope Miss Julia will be very happy.”"
Who is the "steady young man" referred to in this quote from Mansfield Park?
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Every morning now brought its regular duties—shops were to be visited; some new part of the town to be looked at; and the pump-room to be attended, where they paraded up and down for an hour, looking at everybody and speaking to no one. The wish of a numerous acquaintance in Bath was still uppermost with Mrs. Allen, and she repeated it after every fresh proof, which every morning brought, of her knowing nobody at all."
Which Jane Austen novel does this quote come from?
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I made the match myself. I made the match, you know, four years ago; and to have it take place, and be proved in the right, when so many people said ______ would never marry again, may comfort me for any thing.”
What is the name missing from this quote?
"When ____ is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."
What word is missing from this Persuasion quote?
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