Jane Austen Quotes

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No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

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It was too pathetic for the feelings of Sophia and myself—we fainted Alternately on a Sofa.

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Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

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Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

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Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.

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He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....

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I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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The General has got the gout, and Mrs. Maitland the jaundice. Miss Debary, Susan, and Sally, all in black, but without any stature, made their appearance, and I was as civil to them as their bad breath would allow me.

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Something occurred while they were at Hartfield, to make Emma want their advice; and, which was still more lucky, she wanted exactly the advice they gave.

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Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

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Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

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If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it.

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

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Misery such as mine has no pride. I care not who knows that I am wretched.

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Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.

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The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power...

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She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble...

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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

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The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

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I give you joy of having left Winchester. Now you may own how miserable you were there; now it will gradually all come out, your crimes and your miseries — how often you went up by the Mail to London and threw away fifty guineas at a tavern, and how often you were on the point of hanging yourself, restrained only, as some ill-natured aspersion upon poor old Winton has it, by the want of a tree within some miles of the city.

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You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

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A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

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