Jane Austen Quotes - Page 29

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

  Jane Austen

  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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• Time, time will heal the wound.

  Jane Austen

  Heal, Wounds

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

  Jane Austen

  Passion, Said

  "Sense and Sensibility".

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Sweet, Time, Autumn

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

  Jane Austen

  Men, Imagine, Ready

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

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• The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

  Jane Austen

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

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• Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

  Jane Austen

  Men, News, Paper

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• We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

  Jane Austen

  Missing, Taste, Quitting

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.244

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• And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Hopeless, Seems

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

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• But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

  Jane Austen

  Ignorance, Impossible

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.250, Full Moon Publications

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• My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Mean, Pride

  Jane Austen (2015). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and More”, p.728, Xist Publishing

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• She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.

  Jane Austen

  Kings, Spain, Reign

  Jane Austen (2015). “Love and Freindship: Top Essays”, p.50, 谷月社

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• Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Conviction, Produce

  Jane Austen (2016). “Emma (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.87, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

  Jane Austen

  Party, Eye, Sight

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.201, Full Moon Publications

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• to hope was to expect

  Jane Austen

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Ignatius Critical Editions”, p.332, Ignatius Press

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• Is not poetry the food of love?

  Jane Austen

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• We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

  Jane Austen

  Pregnancy, Cities, Looks

  "The Complete Novels".

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• Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Body, Care

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

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