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Put your Austen powers to the test and take our Jane Austen quiz!
Did you guess which Jane Austen novel the 2 Guy was quoting from when you saw him on WGBH 2? How about this one below?
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(Watch for more of the 2 Guy's Jane Austen quotes on WGBH 2, filmed on location at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts.)
Did you correctly identify which novel his quote came from?
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." —Pride and Prejudice
"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief." —Emma
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." —Mansfield Park
"One man's ways may be as good as another's but we all like our own best." —Persuasion
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?" —Pride and Prejudice
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." —Emma
"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can." —Mansfield Park
"If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and grateful, I should not be shy." —Sense and Sensibility
"Is not general incivility the very essence of love?" —Pride and Prejudice
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like." —Persuasion
"The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographers." —Mansfield Park
"It is such a happiness when good people get together — and they always do." —Emma
"I could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine." —Pride and Prejudice
"If you observe, people always live forever when there is any annuity to be paid them." —Sense and Sensibility
"Do anything rather than marry without affection." —Pride and Prejudice
"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment." —Mansfield Park
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance." —Pride and Prejudice
"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves." —Emma
"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings." —Mansfield Park
"Of course they had fallen in love over poetry." —Persuasion
"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation." —Emma
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment." —Pride and Prejudice
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Complete Jane Austen
All six of Jane Austen's novels come to life as Masterpiece presents The Complete Jane Austen
Find out more about Masterpiece: The Complete Jane Austen. Tune in Sunday nights at 9pm on 2 and Monday nights at 8pm on 44.
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