Jane Austen Quotes
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I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
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I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.
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Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.
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On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
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But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
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Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.
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People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
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I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
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A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.
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Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.
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There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley
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It is a lovely night, and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel, in some degree, as you do; who have not, at least, been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.
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Obstinate, headstrong girl!
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.
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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
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The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.