Jane Austen Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

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There seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

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But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

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A single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else!

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Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

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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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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

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There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

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There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient — at others, so bewildered and so weak — and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

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The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

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If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to 'Yes,' she ought to say 'No,' directly.

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

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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

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