Jane Austen quotes - page 8

There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way. (Jane Austen)

This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

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Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

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To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

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Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood.

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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

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I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more.

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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

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My style of writing is very diffrent from yours. (Jane Austen)

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

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One cannot have too large a party.

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Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

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It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

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When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused...nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.

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Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

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Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

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I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

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You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

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I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth. (Jane Austen)

By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon, for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.

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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.

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I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

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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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