JANE AUSTEN'S GUIDE TO ALMOST EVERYTHING

Yep. Got Jane Austen's guide to almost everything. Not that I read any of her books (embarrassment) , and I've got them all, duplicates. Although, watched some of the movies, except Emma. Watched 'Jane Austen Book Club' movie too. But I've got a 'Jane Austen's guide to Good Manners', 'Jane Austen's guide to Romance'. And since yesterday 'The Jane Austen Marriage Manual'.

The last book, no comment, most probably will never ever read it, but had to purchase it for the collection. Not a fan of chick-lit novels, whatever the mood. Anyhow, had a pick through the pages, obviously!

Under each chapter's name, Kim Izzo, the author, had introduced a quote from Jane's books. So I decided to make a literary confession and share. Enjoy, you Austen people who actually honoured her and read a book or all of them.

'Happiness in a marriage is entirely a matter of chance' - Pride and Prejudice

'There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom  I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it...' - Pride and Prejudice

'One half of the world cannot understand the pleasure of the other'- Emma

'There, I will stake my last like a woman of spirit...I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.' - Mansfield Park

'What wild imagination one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken.' - Persuasion

'Be honest and poor, by all means- but I shall not envy you; I do not much think I shall even respect you. I have much greater respect for those that are honest and rich.' - Mansfield Park

'One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.' - Persuasion

'There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.' - Emma

'I am only resolved to act in that matter, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness...' - Pride and Prejudice

'My conduct shall speak of me; absence, distance, time shall speak for me.' - Mansfield Park

'She must escape...as soon as possible, and find consolation in fortune and consequences, bustle and the world, for a wounded spirit. Her mind was quite determined, and varied not.' - Mansfield Park

'I doubt that I will ever have to make a choice between marrying for love and marrying for more material considerations.' - Pride and Prejudice

'A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.' - Mansfield Park

'Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.' - Mansfield Park

'But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.' - Mansfield Park

'My good opinion once lost is lost forever.' - Pride and Prejudice

'We all have a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.' - Mansfield Park

'No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not posses a certain something in the air, and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions.' - Pride and Prejudice

'In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels...he may never do more than like her, if she does not help him on.' - Pride and Prejudice

'I'm not a romantic, you know. I never was. I ask only for a comfortable home.' - Pride and Prejudice

'How despicably have I acted! I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities!' - Pride and Prejudice

'And I have nothing to regret...nothing but my own folly.' - Sense and Sensibility

'But when a young lady is a heroine...Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.' - Northanger Abbey

'It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.' - Sense and Sensibility