Jane Austen Quotes - Page 25

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• Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

  Jane Austen

  Young, Contempt, Mere

  'Love and Freindship' (written 1790) 'Letter the 13th'

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• You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Ambition, Greatness

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.25, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves.

  Jane Austen

  Running, Mad, Moments

  "Love and Friendship". Story by Jane Austen, 1790.

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• She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Admiration, Pride And Prejudice Pride

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.44

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• I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all.

  Jane Austen

  Beer, World, Would Be

  Jane Austen (2008). “Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)”, p.190, Mondial

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• He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Stupidity, Persons

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Son, Years

  Jane Austen (2008). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.285, Penguin

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• The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

  Jane Austen

  Littles, Rubbish, Firsts

  Jane Austen “The Collected Works of Jane Austen”, Library of Alexandria

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• The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Office, Doe

  Jane Austen (2012). “Emma Thrift Study Edition”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, People, Mouths

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.289, Oxford University Press

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• A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

  Jane Austen

  Marriage, Home, Men

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.383

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• A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Thinking, People

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.95

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• If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

  Jane Austen

  If I Could, Ifs

  "Northhanger Abbey - Persuasion".

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• No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

  Jane Austen

  Training, Fifteen, Born

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.2, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

  Jane Austen

  Mind, Sincere, Admire

  Jane Austen (2009). “Pride and Prejudice Thrift Study Edition”, p.256, Courier Corporation

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• And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

  Jane Austen

  Luck, Triumph, Talent

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.8

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• She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Long Ago, Should Have

  Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.46, Penguin

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• His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

  Jane Austen

  Grace, Cold, Persuasion

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.216, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

  Jane Austen

  Done, Unjust, Merit

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.402, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.

  Jane Austen

  Mind, Comfort, Given

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.190, Ageless Reads

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• Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

  Jane Austen

  Hate, Men, Evil

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.80

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• When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

  Jane Austen

  Perseverance, Two, People

  Jane Austen, Robert Morrison (2011). “Persuasion: An Annotated Edition”, p.300, Harvard University Press

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• “I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Forlorn, Said

  "The Complete Novels of Jane Austen".

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• Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Mind, Female

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.197

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