Jane Austen Quotes - Page 4

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• I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Expectations, Liberty

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• There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, People, Literature

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.945, Ageless Reads

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• I am excessively diverted.

  Jane Austen

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Diversion Classics)”, p.403, Diversion Books

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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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• She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

  Jane Austen

  Ought

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.260

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• I should infinitely prefer a book.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Should

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

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• Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.441, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• We do not suffer by accident.

  Jane Austen

  Suffering, Accidents

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.124

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

  Jane Austen

  Humility, Deceit, Appearance

  Jane Austen, John Halperin (1975). “Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays”, p.129, CUP Archive

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• It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

  Jane Austen

  Vanity, Prejudice, Deceiving

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.120

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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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• I can always live by my pen.

  Jane Austen

  Live By, Pens, I Can

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• Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Sensibility

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

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• I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Way, Wells

  Jane Austen (2000). “Sense and Sensibility: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.97, Modern Library

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• To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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  Nature, Flower, Perfect

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.85

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• I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

  Jane Austen

  Distance, Land, Comfort

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.174, BookBaby

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• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Inspiring, Happy

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.6.

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• It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

  Jane Austen

  Humble, Prosperity, Difficult

  Jane Austen (2015). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and More”, p.371, Xist Publishing

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• When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

  Jane Austen

  House, Library, Miserable

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Women, Humor

  Letter to Cassandra Austen, 24 Dec. 1798

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• Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Pleasant Surprises, Foolish

  'Emma' (1816) ch. 26 (Mr John Knightley)

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• Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

  Jane Austen

  Flower, Air, Unseen

  Jane Austen, Bharat Tandon (2012). “Emma: An Annotated Edition”, p.322, Harvard University Press

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• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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  Happiness, Inspiring, Happy

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

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• It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

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  Fate, Men, Every Man

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.231

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

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  Boards, Ships, Has Beens

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

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