Jane Austen Quotes - Page 3

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• Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Optimistic, Sadness

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 48

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• One word from you shall silence me forever.

  Jane Austen

  Silence, Forever, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.260, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

  Jane Austen

  Mr Knightley

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.56

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• A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Intrusion, Conscience

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.537, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

  Jane Austen

  Family, Happiness, Stay Strong

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.381, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• To love is to burn, to be on fire.

  Jane Austen

  Love Is, Fire

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

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• What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Done, Mr Knightley

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.245, MobileReference

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• A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

  Jane Austen

  Upset, Behavior, Bent

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• Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

  Jane Austen

  Earth, Want, Lasts

  "Pride and Prejudice". Tagline to the film, 2005.

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• The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

  Jane Austen

  Distance, Motive, Pride And Prejudice Pride

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

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• None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Women, Equality, Water

  "Persuasion". Book by Jane Austen, www.theguardian.com. 1817.

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• I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Deserve

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• One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Success, Sex

  Emma ch. 9 (1816)

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• ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

  Jane Austen

  Pain, Remembrance, Pleasure

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

  Jane Austen

  Disappointment, Attitude, Expectations

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Thinking, Vanity

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26, Waking Lion Press

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• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Hope, Selfish

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.

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• The less said the better.

  Jane Austen

  Norfolk, Said

  Jane Austen, Jane Kendall (1942). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.54, Dramatic Publishing

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• You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

  Jane Austen

  Judging, Being The Best

  Jane Austen (1816). “Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.107

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• There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, People, Pride And Prejudice Book

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.119

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• Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

  Jane Austen

  Ignorance, Hands, Facts

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.361, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

  Jane Austen

  Important, Firsts

  Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.2168, Delphi Classics

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• Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Companion, Self Talk

  Jane Austen (2014). “Mansfield Park”, p.74, Trajectory Inc

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• I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

  Jane Austen

  Boards, Ships, Has Beens

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.206, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

  Jane Austen

  Moments, Form, Mansfield Park

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