Jane Austen on Humor
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Jane Austen, catalogued under humor, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Jane Austen, entry #74584: "You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me."
Attributed to Jane Austen, entry #61526: "He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him — goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes quee…"
4 Quotes by Jane Austen on Humor
"You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me."
"He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him — goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening."
"What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?"
"In Paragon we met Mrs. Foley and Mrs. Dowdeswell with her yellow shawl airing out, and at the bottom of Kingsdown Hill we met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall — and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead."