Jane Austen Quotes - Page 19

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• The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

  Jane Austen

  Memories, Sometimes, Weak

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

  Jane Austen

  Brother, Offering, Hands

  Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.1064, Penguin

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• She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

  Jane Austen

  Patience, Understanding, Fancy

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.25, Wild Jot Press

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• Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

  Jane Austen

  Genius, Letters, Checks

  Jane Austen (2012). “The Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.70, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

  Jane Austen

  Acceptance, Mr Collins, Hands

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.96

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• Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

  Jane Austen

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Different

  "Emma".

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• I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

  Jane Austen

  Speech, Might, Able

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• It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

  Jane Austen

  Vegetables, Years, Exemplary

  "Fictional character: Mr. Collins". "Pride and Prejudice", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.

  Jane Austen

  People, Done, Tone

  Jane Austen (2005). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.157, Prestwick House Inc

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• It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Practice, Style

  Jane Austen (2012). “Northanger Abbey”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Girl, Lovely

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.48, Ageless Reads

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• The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

  Jane Austen

  Imperfection, Attention, Darcy

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.41

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• One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half.

  Jane Austen

  Other Half, Should, Wiser

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.325, BookCaps Study Guides

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• She was stronger alone.

  Jane Austen

  Stronger

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.85, Wordsworth Editions

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• A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

  Jane Austen

  Natural, Sequels, Unnatural

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 4

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• There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

  Jane Austen

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.1592, GENERAL PRESS

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• There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Perception, Natural

  Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.100, Infobase Publishing

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• Do you dance, Mr. Darcy?" Darcy: "Not if I can help it!" Sir William: "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing, after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished societies." Mr. Darcy: "Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world; every savage can dance.

  Jane Austen

  People, Dancing, Savages

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• Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .

  Jane Austen

  Book, Men, Occupation

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 1

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• Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Mrs Bennet, Faces

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 16, 1813.

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• If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.

  Jane Austen

  Gratitude, Attachment, Two

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.371, Waking Lion Press

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• there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

  Jane Austen

  Together, Borders, Half

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.219, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Sorry, Giving

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.16, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

  Jane Austen

  May, Rewards, Tendencies

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.1134, GENERAL PRESS

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• Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.

  Jane Austen

  Fate, Opinion, Favourite

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.230, Wordsworth Editions

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