Jane Austen - Lady Quotes

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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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Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

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Lady Middleton... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

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And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

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And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged: no harm can be done.

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If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

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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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My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her
first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider
everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for
love, if they can.

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About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.

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