Jane Austen Quotes - Page 19

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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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• But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

  Jane Austen

  Three, Foolish, Young

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.755, Ageless Reads

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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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• I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

  Jane Austen

  Garden, Walks

  "Fictional character: Charlotte Lucas". "Pride and Prejudice/ Episode #1.3", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

  Jane Austen

  Justice, Can Do, Greater

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.336

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• I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Attachment, Punishment

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.92, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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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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• 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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• When I fall in love, it will be forever.

  Jane Austen

  Falling In Love, Fall, Forever

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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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• I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

  Jane Austen

  Marriage, Dance, Country

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• For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

  Jane Austen

  Sports, Neighbor, Reviews

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• I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Way, Notion

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1249, Ageless Reads

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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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• She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.

  Jane Austen

  Forgiving

  Jane Austen (2005). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1189, Wordsworth Editions

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• Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

  Jane Austen

  Night, Thinking, Together

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.348, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

  Jane Austen

  Fate, People, Unhappy

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.32, Oxford University Press

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• If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Persuasion, Ifs

  Jane Austen (2016). “Persuasion”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance.

  Jane Austen

  Memories, Men, May

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.317, Wordsworth Editions

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• Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

  Jane Austen

  Sound, Noise, Matter

  Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.211, Infobase Publishing

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• We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

  Jane Austen

  Encouragement, Heart, Enough

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.17

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• It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Circles, Differences

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.423

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