Catherine Morland Quotes

“As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.”
― Jane Austen

“You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“And are you prepared to encounter all the horrors that a building such as "what one reads about" may produce? Have you a stout heart? Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry?”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“There was a great deal of good sense in all this; but there are some situations of human mind in which good sense has very little power; and Catherine's feelings contradicted almost every position her mother advanced.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Catherine... enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.”
― Jane Austen