Jane Austen Quotes
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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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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I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.
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I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived - my breakfast supplied only two ideas - that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
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I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-" "Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you." "And I you.
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'I shall soon be rested,' said Fanny; 'to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.'
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...from politics, it was an easy step to silence.
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you.
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.
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Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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I cannot anyhow continue to find people agreeable; I respect Mrs. Chamberlayne for doing her hair well, but cannot feel a more tender sentiment. Miss Langley is like any other short girl, with a broad nose and wide mouth, fashionable dress and exposed bosom. Adm. Stanhope is a gentleman-like man, but then his legs are too short and his tail too long.
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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant, and spending all my money, and, what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.
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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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She would tell you herself that she has a very dreadful cold in her head at present; but I have not much compassion for colds in the head without fever or sore throat.
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You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.
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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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Devereux Forester's being ruined by his vanity is extremely good, but I wish you would not let him plunge into a 'vortex of dissipation.' I do not object to the thing, but I cannot bear the expression; it is such thorough novel slang, and so old that I daresay Adam met with it in the first novel he opened.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
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I give you joy of our new nephew, and hope if he ever comes to be hanged it will not be till we are too old to care about it.
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You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me.