On behalf of Team Austenesque, I’d like to welcome you to AUSTENESQUE EXTRAVAGANZA, a month-long CELEBRATION of AUSTENESQUE novels and authors!
Today’s Austenesque Event is…
And today’s Wednesday Word Games is…
“WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?”
HOW TO PLAY:
1. Look at the QUOTE the LAST commenter left.
2. Name the SPEAKER of the QUOTE and the NOVEL they come from.
3. LEAVE a character QUOTE for the next person in your COMMENT.
**All quotes MUST come from JANE AUSTEN novels!
**NO CHEATING! You can use books or the internet to choose your quote, but NOT to answer a quote. Don’t know the answer to a quote? Come back later and try again!
**You can play more than once!
** You CANNOT take consecutive turns!
Each time you participate in this event and TAKE a TURN you will be entered in a chance to win…
The Netherfield Park Bundle!
Sponsored by Berkley Books and Author Mary Simonsen! Thank you!
OR
The Maple Grove Bundle!
- This giveaway is open internationally.
- Please make sure your name or username is somewhere in your comment.
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- (You could also leave a Twitter handle or Facebook username instead).
- This giveaway closes October 3rd.
- Let us know which bundle you are interested in winning (you can say BOTH!)
FIRST QUOTE:
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life reading it. I assure you, if it had not been to meet you, I would not have come away from it for all the world.”
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Catherine’s response in Northanger Abbey..
Maple Grove please ..;)
“I certainly am proud, too proud to enjoy a welcome which depends so entirely upon place.”
Anne Elliot in “Persuasion”
I choose The Netherfield Park Bundle
newyorkgirl82(at)gmail(dot)com
My quote is: “The country can in general supply but a few subjects for such a study. In a country neighbourhood you move in a very confined and unvarying society.”
If I’m not mistaken, it’s Mr.Darcy’s line said in Netherfield on the day when Mrs.Bennet came to check on Jane (Pride and Prejudice)
The Netherfield Park bundle, please
oloore (at) gmail (dot) com
And my quote is “We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be”
Fanny Price from Mansfield Park said it.
Netherfield Bundle please. Tq
evangelineace2020(at)yahoo(dot)com
No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.
Nothanger Abbey – Henry Tilney, is it not?
The Netherfield Park Bundle!
@samjaymc
Henry Tilney from Northanger Abbey said it. 🙂
The Netherfield Park Bundle!
araminta18 at gmail dot com
“…the bells rang, and everybody smiled”
Ok, ignore that last comment…it’s not a character quote. Sorry!
Henry Tilney from Northanger Abbey said Lúthien84’s quote. 🙂
The Netherfield Park Bundle!
araminta18 at gmail dot com
“I have a notion you danced with him, but am not quite sure. I remember I had my favourite gown on…”
Mrs Allen in Northanger Abbey..
Maple Grove thankyou 😉
“but I am amused that he should have seen so far into my feelings.”
Mr. Knightly in Emma!
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all” – By, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
crystal_dark[at]att[dot]net
I would like The Maple Grove Bundle!
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” – By, Darcy in Pride and Prejudice
“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
castlefan[at]att[dot]net
Either bundle would be alright.
Elizabeth in P&P ..
Maple Grove plz 😉
“It is very true. My happiness never was his object.”
Marianne to Elinor. S&S
“That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.”
netherfield Park Bundle
cheskawalter(at)aol(dot)com
I think that is Marianne speaking to Sir John in S&S.
“My idea of good company…is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.’
‘You are mistaken,’ said he gently, ‘that is not good company, that is the best.”
The Netherfield Park Bundle.
Thanks!
Sophia
sophiarose1816 at gmail dot com
The above quote is by Anne and Mr Elliot in Persuasion.
@jaffobsession (Maple Grove bundle please)
“In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”
“In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”- By, Charlotte Lucas in Pride and Prejudice
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.”
I would like The Maple Grove Bundle!
crystal_dark[at]att[dot]net
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Good one! Darcy to Caroline in p&P
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness that I ever heard of”
Netherfield Park bundle
Sophia
sophiarose1816 at gmail dot com
Mary Crawford, Mansfield Park!
Netherfield Park bundle
araminta18 at gmail dot com
“She will be more hurt by it, and on the same principle will forgive him much sooner.”
Elinor to Edward,S&S I think when discussing Lucy and Robert?
“I should be sorry indeed if it were. We were always good friends; and now we are better.”
cheskawalter(at)aol(dot)com
Netherfield Bundle
“I should be sorry indeed if it were. We were always good friends; and now we are better.” – By, Mr. Wickham in Pride and Prejudice
“Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends— whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.”
I am interested in both The Netherfield Park Bundle & The Maple Grove Bundle.
castlefan[at]att[dot]net
“Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends— whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.” – By, Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
I would like The Maple Grove Bundle!
crystal_dark[at]att[dot]net
I think that Darcy said, “Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends— whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain.” When he and Elizabeth were dancing at Netherfield?
Your right, I meant to put Mr. Darcy but I put Mr. Bennet by mistake. Thanks for noticing.
Elizabeth in P&P
“The one claim I shall make for my sex is that we love the longest when all hope is gone.”
The Netherfield Park bundle
Sophia
sophiarose1816 at gmail dot com
Anne in Persuasion.
“Ah! poor Miss Taylor! ’tis a sad business.”
I’m interested in both bundles.
reichanam at gmail dot com
Mr. Woodhouse in Emma
Are you ill Miss Dashwood? You seem low-you don’t speak; sure you aren’t well”
Maple Grove Bundle
thx4praying at aol dot com
Lucy Steele in Sense and Sensibility
“A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be married to a respectable, intelligent gentleman-farmer!”
kellik115(at)yahoo(dot)com
Netherfield Park Bundle please:)
“A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be married to a respectable, intelligent gentleman-farmer!”- By, Mr. Knightley in Emma
“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
I would like The Maple Grove Bundle!
crystal_dark[at]att[dot]net
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“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.” -> Mr Bennet speaking to Elizabeth after Mr Darcy ask for permission to marry her.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
evangelineace2020(at)yahoo(dot)com
Netherfield Park Bundle
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.” Marianne to her mother in S&S.
@jaffobsession (Maple Grove please)
“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
Yeah! Another fun game!
the above is Jane to Lizzy in Pride and Prejudice
“A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman. He ought not; he does not.’
joyalegra at gmail (maple grove please)
“A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman. He ought not; he does not.” -> said by Captain Wentworth in Persuasion
I love this game. Netherfield Park Bundle, please
It is such a happiness when good people get together-and they always do.
evangelineace2020(at)yahoo(dot)com
“It is such a happiness……” Miss Bates in Emma
“If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him.”
joyalegra at gmail (maple grove please)
“If a woman conceals her affection..” Charlotte in P&P
Maple Grove thanks..
” In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better shew more affection than she feels. “
This quote has been used before. Please do not repeat it again.
“In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better shew more affection than she feels.” -> sounds like Charlotte Lucas in P&P while discussing with Elizabeth about Jane and Bingley’s mutual attraction.
Seems like readers love to quote P&P more than other novels.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Netherfield Park please.
evangelineace2020(at)yahoo(dot)com
“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.” – By, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
I am interested in both The Netherfield Park Bundle & The Maple Grove Bundle.
castlefan[at]att[dot]net
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” -> Mr Bennet in P&P
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Netherfield Park Bundle
evangelineace2020(at)yahoo(dot)com
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” – By, Mrs. Elton in Emma
“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
I would like The Maple Grove Bundle!
crystal_dark[at]att[dot]net
“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!” – By, Mr. Knightley in Emma
“No lace. No lace, Mrs. Bennett, I beg you!”
I am interested in both The Netherfield Park Bundle & The Maple Grove Bundle.
castlefan[at]att[dot]net
“No lace. No lace, Mrs. Bennett, I beg you!” – By, Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
I would like The Maple Grove Bundle!
crystal_dark[at]att[dot]net
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” – by Henry Tilney in Northanger Abbey
I would like the Netherfield Park Bundle!
oloore (at) gmail (dot) com
“I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it”
“I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it” – Mr Knightly to Emma
@jaffobsession (Maple Grove please)
I love this game!
“Run mad as often as you choose; but do not faint.”
“Run mad ..” fanny from Mansfield Park
{maple grove}
“I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice”
“I do not find…” Emma in Emma
“I think him everything that is worthy and amiable.”
(maple grove)
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by Marianne in S&S
“The profession has it’s utility, but I should be sorry to see any friend of mine belonging to it!”
Maple Grove bundle please
thx4praying at aol dot com
“The profession has it’s utility..” Sir Walter ELliot Persuasion
{maple grove plz}
“If I thought it would not tempt her to go out in sharp winds, and grow coarse, I would send her a new hat and pelisse.”
“If I thought it would not tempt her to go out in sharp winds, and grow coarse, I would send her a new hat and pelisse.” – By, Sir Walter in Persuasion
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
I am interested in both The Netherfield Park Bundle & The Maple Grove Bundle.
castlefan[at]att[dot]net
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
the lovely Mary Crawford, MP
“A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening or never.”
Heather M.
hmoll(at)nycap(dot)rr(dot)com
Maple Grove, please
“A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening or never.” -> Captain Wentworth in Persuasion
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Netherfield Park, please
evangelineace2020(at)yahoo(dot)com
“One half of the world cannot understand…” is Emma from Emma
{Maple Grove choice ty}
“If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it.”
If there is anything disagreeable…I’m pretty sure that’s a Mary Musgrove from Persuasion.
“Obstinate, headstrong girl! I am ashamed of you!”
Maple Grove bundle
thx4praying at aol dot com
“Obstinate, headstrong girl! I am ashamed of you!”- By, Lady Catherine de Burgh in Pride and Prejudice
“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for.”
I would like The Maple Grove Bundle!
crystal_dark[at]att[dot]net
“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for.”- By, Darcy in Pride & Prejudice
“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman’s daughter. So far we are equal.”
I am interested in both The Netherfield Park Bundle & The Maple Grove Bundle.
castlefan[at]att[dot]net
“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman’s daughter. So far we are equal.” -> Elizabeth Bennet speaking to Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
The Netherfield Park Bundle, please.
evangelineace2020(at)yahoo(dot)com
“To sit in the shade…” is Fanny Price in Mansfield Park
@jaffobsession (Maple Grove please)
“I have always observed that they who are good-natured when children are good-natured when they grow up; and he was always the sweetest-tempered, most generous-hearted, boy in the world.”
“I have always observed that they who are good-natured when children are good-natured when they grow up..” Mrs Reynolds in P&P
{@_eHope for Maple Grove Bundle plz}
“It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence.”
“It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence.” By, Caroline Bingley in Pride and Prejudice
“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
I would like The Maple Grove Bundle!
crystal_dark[at]att[dot]net
“It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence.” By, Caroline Bingley in Pride and Prejudice
“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
I would like The Maple Grove Bundle!
crystal_dark[at]att[dot]net
Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice.
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
Netherfield Park bundle
Sophia
sophiarose1816 at gmail dot com
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” -> sounds like something Marianne Dashwood of S&S will say but I’m not too sure.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
evangelineace2020(at)yahoo(dot)com
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I think that’s from Northanger Abbey? Not sure who said it…
“I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening or never.”
I would like to win both bundles!
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erm, catherine morland perhaps but then again I could be wrong.
Sorry, I had to cheat on this one. It was Isabella Thorpe of Northanger Abbey. I got it wrong because I remember something about Marianne not loving people by halves and in time her heart became Colonel Brandon’s.
these were certainly amusing to read. I’m not good a quotes. I couldn’t even get my own favorite right when trying to quote it lately.
“A word, a look…” (sigh…) That’s from Wentworth’s letter to Anne in Persuasion.
@jaffobsession (Maple Grove please)
“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.”
“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.” By, Edward Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility
“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?”
I would like The Maple Grove Bundle!
crystal_dark[at]att[dot]net
“Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?” is a quote from Marianne Dashwood. 🙂
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
I would love either bundle. 🙂
liedermadchen(at)hotmail(dot)com
Darcy to Caroline in P&P
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
Netherfield Park bundle
Thanks,
Sophia
sophiarose1816 at gmail dot com
“I hate to hear you talk about all women..” by Sophia Croft in Persuasion
Maple Grove bundle 🙂 TY
“Have you seen any pleasant men? Have you had any flirting?”
I just had to quote my Jane Austen namesake. Hehe!
perfect! and what a great statement =) thx Sophia Rose..
now for someone to put a name to my quote & keep this game rolling!
we’ve still 2 days to play !! 😉
“Have you seen any pleasant men? Have you had any flirting?” By, Lydia in Pride & Prejudice
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
I would like The Maple Grove Bundle!
crystal_dark[at]att[dot]net
This quote has also been done before.
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?” – By, Bennet in Pride & Prejudice
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
I am interested in both The Netherfield Park Bundle & The Maple Grove Bundle.
castlefan[at]att[dot]net
I meant to say Mr. Bennet
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” By, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice
“My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
I would like The Maple Grove Bundle!
crystal_dark[at]att[dot]net
My good opinion once lost, is lost forever. -> Mr Darcy from P&P
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
evangelineace2020(at)yahoo(dot)com
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. Emma by Emma
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.” Such is the common cant. “And what are you reading, Miss—?” “Oh! It is only a novel!” replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame.
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.” Such is the common cant. “And what are you reading, Miss—?” “Oh! It is only a novel!” replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. – I believe this quote is by Catherine Morland from Northanger Abbey.
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
I am interested in both The Netherfield Park Bundle & The Maple Grove Bundle.
castlefan[at]att[dot]net
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” By, Charlotte Lucas in Pride and Prejudice
“Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of disappointment.”
I would like The Maple Grove Bundle!
crystal_dark[at]att[dot]net