British Lit Quotes

“I have no heart? Perhaps I have not; / But then you're mad to take offense / That I don't give you what I have not got; / Use your own common sense.”
― Christina Rossetti

“What beautiful hyacinths! I have just learnt to love a hyacinth. -- Catherine Morland”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Thus the ideal marriage at the end of a Jane Austen novel is not simply a conventional happy ending . . . It offers itself as an emblem of the ideal union of property and propriety -- a model to be emulated, a paradigm for a more general combination of the two on which the future of her society depends.”
― Tony Tanner, Jane Austen