Jane Austen Quotes - Page 14

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• I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

  Jane Austen

  Selfish, Practice, Principles

  'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 58 (Mr Darcy)

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• I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, Turkeys, Myrtle

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

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• There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Two, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2012). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion”, p.574, Modern Library

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• I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

  Jane Austen

  Creatures, Fortunate

  "Pride and Prejudice".

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• Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

  Jane Austen

  Healing, Sea, Air

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sanditon”, p.12, Xist Publishing

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• for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Would Be, Disagreeable

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.15

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• As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

  Jane Austen

  Brother, Pain, People

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.14

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• I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Giving, World

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• people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them

  Jane Austen

  People, Paid, Sensibility

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: World Classics”, p.9, World Classic

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• Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

  Jane Austen

  Attention, Too Much, Danger

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

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• No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Ballroom

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.82

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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.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Shy, Natural

  "Sense and Sensibility". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 17, 1811.

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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.

  Jane Austen

  Power, Done, Literature

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.305, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Mrs Bennet, Prejudice

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 24 (1813)

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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.

  Jane Austen

  Romance, Youth, Natural

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 4

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• There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

  Jane Austen

  Sweet, Kindness, Grateful

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.700, Lulu Press, Inc

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• An annuity is a very serious business.

  Jane Austen

  Serious Business, Serious

  Sense and Sensibility vol. 1, ch. 2 (1811)

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• Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Suspense, Ends

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.379

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• One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Ends, Fortnight

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.284, Ageless Reads

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• Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

  Jane Austen

  Errors, People, Feelings

  Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.429, Open Road Media

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• From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

  Jane Austen

  Selfish, Men, Feelings

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.133

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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.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Attention, Body

  Jane Austen (2002). “Northanger Abbey - Second Edition”, p.63, Broadview Press

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• What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

  Jane Austen

  Life, Heart, Suffering

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

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• If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

  Jane Austen

  Should Have, Prejudice, Has Beens

  Huw Thomas, Jane Austen (2014). “Exploring Pride and Prejudice (Includes Jane Austen's Original Novel): A Journey through the 1995 TV Series Starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle”, p.103, BookBaby

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• I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Opportunity, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.2139, Delphi Classics

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