Jane Austen Quotes
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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
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His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.
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To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
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There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.
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Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.
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I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.
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I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.
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Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to ascertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.
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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”
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Success supposes endeavour.
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We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.
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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some...
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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
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But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.
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We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
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The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
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The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.
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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.