Jane for the Day...

Masterpiece continues to show the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. Last night was part two of three and I convinced Paul to watch the last half hour with me. (I do own the movie, but there's something about watching a favorite movie that's actually on the television!) So here's the quote that introduces Mr. Darcy and his "first impression" of Elizabeth Bennett. (You "Jane" fans will understand the "first impressions" thing!)

"'She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.'"

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have liked Mr. Darcy I had overheard him say this about me!

The Men of Austen

For you romantics out there, here is a compilation of the Austen heroes (and some of the less heroic as well) to go along with Jane's quote.

Jane for the Day

I'm obviously behind in doing this. I've been particularly busy this weekend and haven't even had time to watch Sunday Night's Masterpiece which was Northanger Abbey. So, I'm throwing out a quote today from that novel, which is not one of Jane's most popular. The heroine Catherine loves reading novels and often lets her imaginations run away because of said novels! Here she is...

"Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
--Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

What a lovely way to spend your Sunday evenings! Masterpiece Theatre is running a Jane Austen series which started last night. Each Sunday evening presents a Jane Austen film, some new and some the all-time classics! If you're a Jane lover, make sure you check it out on Sunday nights! Last night was "Persuasion" and it was very good! I enjoyed it immensely and because Paul was out of town, he also enjoyed not having to watch it! I am also particularly looking forward to a new "Emma" starring Kate Beckinsale!

Jane for the Day...

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously...Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. --Pride and Prejudice

Jane for the Day...

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do sem peculiarly past finding out. --Mansfield Park

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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like. --Mansfield Park
(Yep, every Monday back to housework, trying to recover from the weekend!)

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"Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never."
-Pride and Prejudice
I like this one because, sometimes, I do feel rather proud of myself and think others surely must notice it!

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More Great Fall Colors
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In honor of fall, take a walk through nature today:
"Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness, that season which has drawn from every poet, worthy of being read, some attempt at description, or some lines of feeing." --Persuasion

Jane for the Day...

"I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both. . . . Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!" --Sense and Sensibility

Jane for the Day (a bit late)...

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. --Pride and Prejudice

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"Wherever you are you should always be contented, but especially at home, because there you must spend the most of your time." --Northanger Abbey

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Why not seize pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! -Emma

Jane for the Day...

On a few blogs that I read, the author puts a quote or picture of something that inspires her once a week on her blog. I've decided to do a Jane Austen quote on Mondays--a little tidbit to get us through the week with a smile or thought or little truth. Here is the first one, which I think many of us relate to:
"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere . . . " Mansfield Park