Jane Austen Quotes

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  There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

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  Inspiring, Girly, Healing

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

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

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  Judging, Body, Judgment

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

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

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  Thinking, Action, Jane

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

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

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  Dream, Heart, Looks

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

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  Real, Past, Scar

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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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  Love, Friendship, Cute Relationship

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

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

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  Love, Perfect, Imperfection

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• The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

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  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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• To love is to burn, to be on fire.

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  Love Is, Fire

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

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

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  Prejudice, World, Inconsistency

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

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• Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

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  Real, Pride, Vanity

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.50

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• It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

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  Vanity, Prejudice, Deceiving

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.120

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• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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  Inspiring, Hope, Selfish

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.

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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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  Inspiring, People, Literature

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

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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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  Inspirational, Funny, Stupid

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, 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.

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  Pride, Thinking, Vanity

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

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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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  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

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  Ignorance, Hands, Facts

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.361, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.

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  Everyday, World, Belief

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

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• Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

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  Maturity, Self, Growth

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• Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

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  Laughing, Nonsense, Whim

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.49

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• It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

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  Humble, Prosperity, Difficult

  Jane Austen (2015). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and More”, p.371, Xist Publishing

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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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  Heart, Expectations, Liberty

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• but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Jane Austen (2016). “Juvenilia -”, p.19, Jane Austen

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• Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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  Reflection, Companion, Self Talk

  Jane Austen (2014). “Mansfield Park”, p.74, Trajectory Inc

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