Jane Austen Quotes - Page 15

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• There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome." "And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.

  Jane Austen

  Hate, Believe, Evil

  Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.303, Penguin

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

  Jane Austen

  People, Poverty, Wealth

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

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• My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, One Day, Lasts

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.235, Wordsworth Editions

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• She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

  Jane Austen

  Ridiculous, Disposition, Lively

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• It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language

  Jane Austen

  Fiction Novels, Thorough Knowledge, Mind

  Northanger Abbey ch. 5 (1818)

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• I have read your book, and I disapprove.

  Jane Austen

  Book

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• Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Stupid, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Aunt, Letters

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.243, BookBaby

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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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• Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

  Jane Austen

  Integrity, Romance, Prejudice

  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.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

  Jane Austen

  Unjust, May, Persuasion

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1580, Ageless Reads

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• He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.

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  Voice, Rose, Wish

  Jane Austen (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)”, p.129, Jane Austen

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• There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Pretty Woman, World

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.1

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• A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

  Jane Austen

  World, Our Actions, Source

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

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• I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

  Jane Austen

  Accomplishment, Expectations, Quality

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.591, Ageless Reads

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• Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

  Jane Austen

  Exercise, Opportunity, Talent

  Jane Austen (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)”, p.1579, Jane Austen

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• I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

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  Men, Infidelity

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.422

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• I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

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  Mistake, Stupid, Character

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Ignatius Critical Editions”, p.92, Ignatius Press

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• Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

  Jane Austen

  Pocketbooks, Property

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• Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.

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  Moving, Reading, Voice

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• What strange creatures brothers are!

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  Brother, Strange, Creatures

  Jane Austen (1857). “Mansfield Park: a novel”, p.39

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• Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

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  Dancing, Together, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2007). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.94, Bethany House

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• A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

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  Luck, Lucky, Talent

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.13, MobileReference

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• If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

  Jane Austen

  Men, Doe, Endeavour

  Sophia Bedford-Pierce, Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Little Instruction Book”, p.14, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. 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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  Real, Believe, Pride

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen, January 28, 1813.

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