Jane Austen Quotes - Page 21

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• it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

  Jane Austen

  Laziness, Youth, Sofas

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

  Jane Austen

  Principles, Ease, Ruling

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.213, Wordsworth Editions

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• she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Giving, Mind

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.264, 谷月社

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• If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

  Jane Austen

  Good Luck, Men, Mr Collins

  Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.497, Penguin

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• Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

  Jane Austen

  Silly, Conceited, Men

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.82, PDFreeBooks.org

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• The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

  Jane Austen

  Men, May, Firsts

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.49

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• Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment.

  Jane Austen

  Disappointment, Names, Desire

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.182, Lulu.com

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• Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Broken, Silence

  "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

  Jane Austen

  Agony, Soul, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1372, Wordsworth Editions

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• Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Mrs Bennet, Order

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26

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• She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

  Jane Austen

  Perfect, Wish, Contentment

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.919, BookBaby

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• To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

  Jane Austen

  Real, Men, Mind

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.193, MobileReference

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• A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.

  Jane Austen

  Disappointment, Successful, Promise

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.143, PDFreeBooks.org

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• I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Blessing, Perfect

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• Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Reflection, Stories

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1078, Wordsworth Editions

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• She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Heart, Boys

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.635, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Prejudice, Kind

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.97

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• Till this moment I never knew myself.

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, Moments, Pride And Prejudice Book

  Jane Austen (2010). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.175, Giunti Editore

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• My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

  Jane Austen

  Literature, Sore Throat, Throat

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• When money is once parted with, it can never return.

  Jane Austen

  Return

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• I do not cough for my own amusement.

  Jane Austen

  Amusement, My Own

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.4

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• A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Men, Doe

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.335, BookCaps Study Guides

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• One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

  Jane Austen

  Silly, Likes, Trifling

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• Sense will always have attractions for me.

  Jane Austen

  Attraction

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Ignatius Critical Editions”, p.52, Ignatius Press

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• Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

  Jane Austen

  Stranger, Unison, Estrangement

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.509, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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