Jane Austen Quotes About Compliments

• I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Missing, Attention

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.256

• Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Compliment, Rational

  "Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 36, 1811.

• Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

  Jane Austen

  Differences, Surprise, Compliment

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

• I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Might, Compliment

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

• To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

  Jane Austen

  Yield, Understanding, Merit

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

  Jane Austen

  Love, Missing, Age

  Jane Austen (2004). “Mansfield Park”, p.163, Sparklesoup LLC

• I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Men, Honour You

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.97

• ¡No llevar un diario! ¿Cómo van a entender tus primos ausentes el tenor de tu vida en Bath sin un diario? ¿Cómo van a relatarse como es debido las cortesías y cumplidos de cada día, a menos que se anoten todas las noches en un diario? ¿Cómo se van a recordar sus diversos vestidos, y se van a describir el estado particular de su tez y el rizo de su cabello en todas sus diversidades, sin recurrir constantemente a un diario?

  Jane Austen

  Primo, Pelo, Diversidad

  Jane Austen (2007). "The Complete Novels of Jane Austen", p.1085, Ediciones Wordsworth

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