Jane Austen quotes - page 15

We can all begin freely-a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. (Jane Austen)

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

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I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet.

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Sense will always have attractions for me.

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her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high repect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

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You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. (Jane Austen)

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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...told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered...

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Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

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Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

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I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

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What could I do! Facts are such horrid things!

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Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

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Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself. (Jane Austen)

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

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There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.

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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

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My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

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Jane Austen

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Occupation: British Writer
Born: December 16, 1775
Died: July 18, 1817
Quotes count: 599
Wikipedia: Jane Austen

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