Jane Austen Quotes

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

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"I am afraid", replied Elinor, "that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid

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Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

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Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.

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For he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

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One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

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It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

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If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

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People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

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Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.

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It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

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Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground—I screamed and instantly ran mad! We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an hour and a quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation.

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Every body's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessings of health.

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In Paragon we met Mrs. Foley and Mrs. Dowdeswell with her yellow shawl airing out, and at the bottom of Kingsdown Hill we met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall — and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

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It would have amused you to see our progress. We went up by Sion Hill, and returned across the fields. In climbing a hill Mrs. Chamberlayne is very capital; I could with difficulty keep pace with her, yet would not flinch for the world. On plain ground I was quite her equal. And so we posted away under a fine hot sun, she without any parasol or any shade to her hat, stopping for nothing, and crossing the churchyard at Weston with as much expedition as if we were afraid of being buried alive.

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