Jane Austen Quotes - Page 14

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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.

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  Healing, Sea, Air

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

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• It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

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  Pride, Taught, Prejudice

  "Fictional character: Mr Darcy". "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 16, 1813.

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• This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

  Jane Austen

  Evening, Wonder

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.221, Book Boutiques

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• My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

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  Character, Desire, Littles

  "Fictional character: Jane Austen". "Becoming Jane", 2007.

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• She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Miserable

  Jane Austen (1857). “Mansfield park”, p.185

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• Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

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  Love Is, Labor, Ifs

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• How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

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  Love, Decided

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.593, MobileReference

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• To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

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  Half, Literature, States

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.438

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• There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

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  Wish, Novelists, Genius

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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.

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

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  Men, Would Be, Disagreeable

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

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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.

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  Mean, Turkeys, Myrtle

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

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• The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Men, Years

  Jane Austen (2014). “Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen”, BookRix

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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 am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

  Jane Austen

  Creatures, Fortunate

  "Pride and Prejudice".

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• Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

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  Father, Eye, Men

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.75

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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!

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  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.

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  Happiness, Giving, World

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• Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

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  People, Poverty, Wealth

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.75, Wild Jot Press

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

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  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.

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  Attention, Too Much, Danger

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

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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.

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  Wish, Shy, Natural

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

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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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  Girl, Mrs Bennet, Prejudice

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 24 (1813)

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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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  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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• 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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