Jane Austen Quotes - Page 27

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• I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

  Jane Austen

  Library, Neglect, Darcy

  Jane Austen, Michelle Pillow (2010). “Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.66, Adams Media

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• Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

  Jane Austen

  Body, Right Conduct, Felt

  Jane Austen (2016). “Emma”, p.120, Xist Publishing

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• Faultless in spite of all her faults.

  Jane Austen

  Faults, Spite, Mr Knightley

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.264, Wild Jot Press

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• ... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

  Jane Austen

  May, Causes, Strange

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.4

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• I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Old Friends, Prejudice

  "Pride and Prejudice".

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• You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, Worthy, Please

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.323

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• I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

  Jane Austen

  Morning, Mind, Trimming

  Jane Austen (2012). “The Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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• She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Thinking, Laughing

  Jane Austen (1864). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.17

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• I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Worthy, Amiable

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.21, BookBaby

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• Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Rooms, Eleanor

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• This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

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  Faults, Spite, Sweetest

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.557, MobileReference

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• It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

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  Inspiring, Believe, Church

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.532, Wordsworth Editions

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• The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

  Jane Austen

  Doe, Widows, Remarriage

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• All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Women, Gone

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23 (Anne Eliot)

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• Evil to some is always good to others

  Jane Austen

  Evil

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.233

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• Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.

  Jane Austen

  Comfort, Wanted, Ifs

  "Northanger Abbey". Second Edition,

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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.

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  Silly, Conceited, Men

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

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• A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

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  Trials, World, Prettiest

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.1273, BookBaby

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• “It is not everyone,” said Elinor, “who has your passion for dead leaves.”

  Jane Austen

  Passion, Said

  "Sense and Sensibility".

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• But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

  Jane Austen

  England, Gothic, Century

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• Time, time will heal the wound.

  Jane Austen

  Heal, Wounds

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• She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

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  Sweet, Time, Autumn

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• Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Vanity, Persuasion

  1818 Persuasion, ch.1.

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• A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.

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  Men, Imagine, Ready

  Jane Austen (1816). “Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.125

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• There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Hands, Offending

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