The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

pain of apprehension to be frequently endured, though the offence came not.
‘Emma’ (1816) ch. 11
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature
works.
‘Emma’ (1816) ch. 13 (Mr John Knightley, of Mr Elton)
The folly of allowing people to be comfortable at home—and the folly of people’s not staying
comfortable at home when they can!...five dull hours in another man’s house, with nothing to say
or to hear that was not said and heard yesterday, and may not be said and heard again tomorrow....
four horses and four servants taken out for nothing but to convey five idle, shivering creatures
into colder rooms and worse company than they might have had at home.
‘Emma’ (1816) ch. 13 (Mr John Knightley)
My mother’s deafness is very trifling, you see, just nothing at all. By only raising my voice,
and saying anything two or three times over, she is sure to hear.
‘Emma’ (1816) ch. 19 (Miss Bates)
The sooner every party breaks up the better.
‘Emma’ (1816) ch. 25 (Mr Woodhouse)
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often
considerable.
‘Emma’ (1816) ch. 26 (Mr John Knightley)
That young man is not quite the thing. He has been opening the doors very often this evening
and keeping them open very inconsiderately. He does not think of the draught. I do not mean to
set you against him, but indeed he is not quite the thing.
‘Emma’ (1816) ch. 29 (Mr Woodhouse)
One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
‘Emma’ (1816) ch. 36 (Mrs Elton)
Henry the 4th ascended the throne of England much to his own satisfaction in the year 1399.
‘The History of England’ (written 1791)
One of Edward’s Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a
tragedy and therefore not worth reading.
‘The History of England’ (written 1791)
Nothing can be said in his vindication, but that his abolishing Religious Houses and leaving
them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in
general.
‘The History of England’ (written 1791)
Lady Jane Grey, who has been already mentioned as reading Greek.
‘The History of England’ (written 1791)
It was too pathetic for the feelings of Sophia and myself—we fainted Alternately on a Sofa.
‘Love and Freindship’ (written 1790) ‘Letter the 8th’
She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such
we could scarcely dislike her—she was only an Object of Contempt.