Mr. Wisley Quotes in Becoming Jane (2007)

Mrs. Austen: JANE!

Lady Gresham: What is she doing?

Mr. Wisley: Writing.

Lady Gresham: Can anything be done about it?

Mr. Wisley: Sometimes affection is a shy flower that takes time to blossom.

Mr. Wisley: The good do not always come to good ends. It is a truth universally acknowledged.

Jane Austen: [writing] "... that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. "

Jane Austen: You asked me a question. I am ready to give you an answer. But there is one matter to be settled. I cannot make you out, Mr Wisley. At times, you are the most gentlemanlike man I know and yet you would...

Mr. Wisley: "Yet". What a sad word.

John Warren: And the famous Mrs. Radcliffe, is she as Gothic as her novels?

Jane Austen: Not in externals. But her internal landscape is, I suspect, quite picturesque.

Mr. Wisley: True of us all.