Jane Austen Quotes

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  It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Action, Jane

  Jane Austen, Terry Glaspey (2015). “The Prayers of Jane Austen”, p.75, Harvest House Publishers

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  There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Girly, Healing

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.343, MobileReference

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• Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

  Jane Austen

  Dream, Heart, Looks

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  It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

  Jane Austen

  Judging, Body, Judgment

  Jane Austen (2016). “Emma”, p.119, Xist Publishing

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• Our scars make us know that our past was for real

  Jane Austen

  Real, Past, Scar

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• Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Perfect, Imperfection

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• How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

  Jane Austen

  Clever, Ignorant, Knows

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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.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Friendship, Cute Relationship

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1247, Ageless Reads

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• My heart is, and always will be, yours.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Happiness, Heart

  "Fictional character: Edward Ferrars". "Sense and Sensibility", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

  Jane Austen

  Distance, Motive, Pride And Prejudice Pride

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Imagination, Flight

  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.673, Wildside Press LLC

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• To love is to burn, to be on fire.

  Jane Austen

  Love Is, Fire

  "Fictional character: Marianne Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", 1995.

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• I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Way, Wells

  Jane Austen (2000). “Sense and Sensibility: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.97, Modern Library

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• I should infinitely prefer a book.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Should

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.197

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• From politics it was an easy step to silence.

  Jane Austen

  Silence, Political, Politics

  'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14

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• They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

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  Knowing, Attention, Too Much

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.190, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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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.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Thinking, Vanity

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26, Waking Lion Press

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• You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

  Jane Austen

  Judging, Being The Best

  Jane Austen (1816). “Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.107

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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.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Reading, House

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 03]”, p.52, Jane Austen

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• There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, People, Literature

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.945, Ageless Reads

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• There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

  Jane Austen

  Moments, Form, Mansfield Park

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• Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

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  Important, Firsts

  Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.2168, Delphi Classics

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• Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

  Jane Austen

  Names, Giving, Want

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

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• The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, World, Inconsistency

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.119

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• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Stupid

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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