Mr Knightley Quotes

“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
― Douglas McGrath

“Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Badly done, Emma!”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley.
She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.'
Will you?' said he, offering his hand.
Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.'
Brother and sister! no, indeed.”
― Jane Austen

“I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.”
― george knightley, Emma

“Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.”
― Jane Austen

“I am Emma Woodhouse. I feel for her, of her and in her. I have a different sort of snobbism, but I understand her snobbism. Her priggishness. I admire it. I know she does wrong things, she tries to organize other people's lives, she can't see Mr Knightley is a man in a million. She's temporarily silly, yet all the time one knows she's basically intelligent. Creative, determined to set the highest standards. A real human being.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“I cannot make speeches, Emma:”—he soon resumed, and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing. “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“God knows, I have been a very indifferent lover. But you understand me.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“After all, she understood people so well, as well as Fredrick understood his library.”
― Sarah Holman, Emmeline

“If you are ever angry at him, threaten to do something to one of his books, as calling him Fred does nothing.”
― Sarah Holman, Emmeline

“The dread of being awakened from the happiest dream, was perhaps the most prominent feeling.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“A vaidade trabalhando em uma mente fraca produz muitos tipos de danos.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“There was not one among the whole row of young men who could be compared with him.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“In spite of all her faults she knew she was dear to him; might she not say, very dear?”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Such a companion for herself in the periods of anxiety and cheerlessness before her!”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“I saw her answer, nothing could be clearer."
"You saw her answer! You wrote her answer too. Emma, this is your doing. You persuaded her to refuse him.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Nonsensical girl!' was his reply, but not at all in anger.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“And you cannot call me 'George' now?"
"Impossible!—I can never call you anything but 'Mr. Knightley.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“It was badly done, indeed!”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“He shook his head; but there was a smile of indulgence with it, and he only said:
"I shall not scold you. I leave you to your own reflections."
"Can you trust me with such flatterers?—Does my vain spirit ever tell me I am wrong?"
"Not your vain spirit, but your serious spirit.—If one leads you wrong, I am sure the other tells you of it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“There is one thing (...) a man can always do, if he chooses, and that is, his duty: not by maneuvering and finessing, but by vigor and resolution.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“El señor Knightley no pudo encontrar en Emma un corazón más clemente del que en realidad tenía, ni un corazón más dispuesto a aceptar el suyo.”
― Jane Austen, Emma: A Novel. in Three Volumes, Volume 3

“No es un hombre galante, pero es muy humano”
― Jane Austen

“I am not supposing him at all an unnatural creature, in suspecting that he may have learnt to be above his connexions, and to care very little for any thing but his own pleasure, from living with those who have always set him the example of it. It is a great deal more natural than one could wish, that a young man, brought up by those who are proud, luxurious, and selfish, should be proud, luxurious, and selfish too. If Frank Churchill had wanted to see his father, he would have contrived it between September and January. A man at his age—what is he?—three or four-and-twenty—cannot be without the means of doing as much as that. It is impossible.”
― Jane Austen, Emma, Life