Jane Austen Quotes
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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
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He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.
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Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.
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It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.
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I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.
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She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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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 cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
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Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.
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I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
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She attracted him more than he liked.
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He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.
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Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
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She Mary I married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.
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Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease.
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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.
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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.
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No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.
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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
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Arguments are too much like disputes.
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but 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.'