Jane Austen Quotes - Page 5

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• With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

  Jane Austen

  Women, Heart, Mind

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• You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

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  Integrity, Principles, Sake

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.7

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• A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

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  Mind, Income, May

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.55, Wild Jot Press

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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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• Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

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  Girl, Thinking, Giving

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.24.

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• I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

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  Thinking, Vanity, Female

  1815 Letter to Rev James Clarke, quoted in Justin Wintle and Richard Kenin (eds) The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation (1978).

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• Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

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  Laughing, Prejudice, Literature

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.75

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• I trust that absolutes have gradations.

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  Extremes, Absolutes

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• In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

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  Love, Romantic, Funny Relationship

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.123

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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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• Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

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  Moments, Pleasure

  "The Complete Works of Jane Austen".

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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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• 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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• 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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• The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

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  Heart, Crime, Worst

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• Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

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  People, Giving, Cheerful

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.78, Wild Jot Press

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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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• it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

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  Prejudice, Littles, Vexation

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.18

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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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• Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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  Mrs Bennet, Ironic, Prejudice

  Jane Austen, Pamela Jane, Deborah Guyol (2015). “Pride and Prejudice and Kitties: A Cat-Lover's Romp through Jane Austen's Classic”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The sooner every party breaks up the better.

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  Life, Party, Break

  'Emma' (1816) ch. 25 (Mr Woodhouse)

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• Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

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  Compassion, Tears, Nerves

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.9, W. W. Norton & Company

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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?

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  Funny, Inspiring, Wisdom

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

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• How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

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  Book, Tire

  Jane Austen (2004). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.84, OUP Oxford

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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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