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

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  Names, Giving, Want

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

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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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• I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

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  Happiness, Deserve

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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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• Know your own happiness.

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  Knows

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Novels of Jane Austen”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Inspirational, Change, People

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.36

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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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• I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

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  Wish, Shy, Inferiority

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.26, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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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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