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Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! This week is all about quotes. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen seems very appropriate for Fall considering Catherine’s taste for Gothic novels so I decided to pick ten great quotes from the book. Reading these has reminded me that it has been far too long since I read it!
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine.”
“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
“It is only a novel… 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.”
“If a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together.”
“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.”
“I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life reading it. I assure you, if it had not been to meet you, I would not have come away from it for all the world.”
“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.”
“Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
“Wherever you are you should always be contented, but especially at home, because there you must spend the most of your time.”
Which of these quotes do you like best? Have you read Northanger Abbey? If so, what did you think?
