Jane Austen Quotes - Page 27

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• Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

  Jane Austen

  Guilt, Comfort, Done

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.870, Ageless Reads

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• Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Being Single

  1817 Letter to Fanny Knight,13 Mar.

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• She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

  Jane Austen

  Doors, Broken, Promise

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• At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Sight, Expression

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.43

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• Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

  Jane Austen

  Months, Firsts, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.62

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• The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Dancing, Tears

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.207, BookCaps Study Guides

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• …she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

  Jane Austen

  Felt, Known

  Jane Austen “Pride and Prejudice”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Believe, Pride

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.327

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• Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Men, Mrs Bennet

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Education, Book

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

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• A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Women, Knowledge

  'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14

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• Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

  Jane Austen

  Feelings, Opinion, Reason

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

  Jane Austen

  Crowds, Welcome, Admiration

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.10, Wild Jot Press

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• It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

  Jane Austen

  Mist, Should, Gloomy

  Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.595, Penguin

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• if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Men, Feelings

  Jane Austen (2012). “Emma (Illustrated Edition)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Jane Austen, David M. Shapard (2012). “The Annotated Pride and Prejudice: A Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.26, Anchor

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• What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Heart, Knowing

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

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• If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

  Jane Austen

  Encouragement, Gratitude, Believe

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• Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Law, World

  Helen Jerome, Jane Austen (1936). “Pride and prejudice: a sentimental comedy in three acts”

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• You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Morning, Children

  Jane Austen (2014). “Northanger Abbey (illustrated)”, p.90, Osmora Incorporated

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• I want nothing but death.

  Jane Austen

  Want, Last Words

  Jane Austen, Robert Morrison (2011). “Persuasion: An Annotated Edition”, p.323, Harvard University Press

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• There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Trying, Way

  Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.163, Penguin

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• That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

  Jane Austen

  Children, Long, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2010). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.94, Giunti Editore

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• We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Wife, Mourning

  Letter to Cassandra Austen, 17 May 1799

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• And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

  Jane Austen

  Doors, Minutes, Rational

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.172, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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