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Best Quotes by Jane Austen (Top 10)
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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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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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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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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
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What are men to rocks and mountains?
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
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More Jane Austen Quotes
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
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I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
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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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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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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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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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Know your own happiness.
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
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She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
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Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
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Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.
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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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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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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
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Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
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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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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
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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. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.
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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
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Everybody likes to go their own way"to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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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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Those who do not complain are never pitied.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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The less said the better.
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Well! Evil to some is always good to others.
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You have delighted us long enough.
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
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I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
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In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
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There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
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