Jane Austen Quotes - Page 5

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

  Jane Austen

  Fate, Men, Every Man

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.231

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• I have no talent for certainty.

  Jane Austen

  Talent, Certainty

  "Fictional character: Fanny Price". "Mansfield Park", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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

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  Giving, Sensibility

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

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• How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

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  Mind, Wonderful, Operations

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.184

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• Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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  Inspiring, Vanity, Weak

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Emma. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.21, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

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  Morning, Sleep, Eye

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.149, Ageless Reads

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• I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Understanding, Pleasure

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.89, Lulu.com

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• You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

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  Opinion, Accounts, Mines

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.44, Full Moon Publications

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• The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

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  Prejudice, World, Inconsistency

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

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• She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

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  Should, Darcy, Happy With Him

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.149

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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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• An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

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  Grateful, Meditation, Serious

  Jane Austen (2012). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion”, p.707, Modern Library

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• It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

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  Success, Teaching, Advice

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23

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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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• Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Inspiring, Wisdom

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.53, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

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  Giving, Littles, Wealth

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

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• I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

  Jane Austen

  Writing

  "Jane Austen's Letters".

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• Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

  Jane Austen

  Moments, Pleasure

  "The Complete Works of Jane Austen".

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• But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

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  Inspirational, Change, People

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.36

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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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• You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

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  Heart, Men, Years

  Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion: World Classics”, p.218, World Classic

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• She is loveliness itself.

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  Women, Loveliness

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.26, Wild Jot Press

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

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  Funny, Success, Sex

  Emma ch. 9 (1816)

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• Every savage can dance.

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  Dancing, Savages

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.241, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.

  Jane Austen

  Couple, Numbers, Rooms

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.80

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