Jane Austen Quotes - Page 15

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

  Jane Austen

  Ridiculous, Disposition, Lively

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• From politics it was an easy step to silence.

  Jane Austen

  Silence, Political, Politics

  'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14

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• Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

  Jane Austen

  "Fictional character: Fanny Price". "Mansfield Park", www.imdb.com. August 27, 1999.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Infidelity

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

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