“I think him everything that is worthy and amiable.”
Sense and Sensibility, volume 1, chapter 4
Marianne did not know how much she would come to prize “worthy and amiable” over romantic and good-looking.
Category Archives: Marianne
I require so much!
“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both. . . .
Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
Sense and Sensibility, volume 1, chapter 3
Filed under Love, Marianne, Men, Sense and Sensibility
Sense will always have attractions
“’My protégé, as you call him, is a sensible man; and sense will always have attractions for me. Yes, Marianne, even in a man between thirty and forty. He has seen a great deal of the world; has been abroad; has read, and has a thinking mind. . . . I can only pronounce him to be a sensible man, well-bred, well informed, of gentle address, and I believe possessing an amiable heart.’”
Elinor comes to Colonel Brandon’s defense with Marianne and Willoughby
Sense & Sensibility, volume 1, chapter 10
Comments Off on Sense will always have attractions
Filed under Col. Brandon, Elinor, Marianne, Men, On being a gentleman, Sense and Sensibility
Sleepless nights
“Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face the next morning had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it”
Sense & Sensibility, volume 1, chapter 16
Marianne was of course in no danger of sleeping at all that night, poor girl.
Comments Off on Sleepless nights
Filed under Marianne, Sense and Sensibility, Sense vs. Sensibility
Marriane on self-control
“The business of self-command she settled very easily: with strong affections it was impossible; with calm ones it could have no merit. That her sister’s affections were calm, she dared not deny, though she blushed to acknowledge it; and of the strength of her own, she gave a very striking proof by still loving and respecting that sister in spite of this mortifying conviction.”
Sense & Sensibility, volume 1, chapter 19
Comments Off on Marriane on self-control
Filed under Elinor, Marianne, Self-command, Sense and Sensibility, Sense vs. Sensibility
The Jane Austen Guide to Life: Thoughtful Lessons for the Modern Woman (May, 2012)
A Walk with Jane Austen: A Journey into Adventure, Love, and Faith