Jane Austen Quotes

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

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• You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.

  

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• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

  

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• Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

  

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• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  

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• In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

  

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• If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

  

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• But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

  

  Jane Austen
  • Society
  • Novels
  • Polite