Jane Austen Quotes - Page 6

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

  Jane Austen

  Success, Teaching, Advice

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23

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• She is loveliness itself.

  Jane Austen

  Women, Loveliness

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

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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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• Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Reality, Men

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• I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Long, Done

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• Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

  Jane Austen

  Relationship, Inspiring, Honesty

  Jane Austen (1816). “Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.249

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• but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Jane Austen (2016). “Juvenilia -”, p.19, Jane Austen

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• [I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Wells

  Jane Austen (2012). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume 2: Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion”, p.472, Modern Library

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• If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, I Believe, Ifs

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• What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

  Jane Austen

  Summer, Rainy Day, August

  "Jane Austen's correspondence and letters".

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• How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

  Jane Austen

  Math, Approval, Logic

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.145, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

  Jane Austen

  Attachment, Circles, Interest

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.952, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every savage can dance.

  Jane Austen

  Dancing, Savages

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

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• Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

  Jane Austen

  Fever, Littles, Might

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.232, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Courage, Women

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.79, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

  Jane Austen

  Art, Bears, Sometimes

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• I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Self, May

  Jane Austen, Angie Zambrano (2014). “Emma: (Starbooks Classics Editions)”, Createspace Independent Pub

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• You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

  Jane Austen

  Philosophy, Past, Thinking

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.279

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• They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

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  Knowing, Attention, Too Much

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.190, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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  Inspiring, Love You, Men

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.92, Wild Jot Press

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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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• Everything nourishes what is strong already

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Sonnet

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 9 (1813)

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• It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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  Perfect, Too Short, Delightful

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.919, BookBaby

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• I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

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  Treatment, Deserve The Best, Deserve

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.289, Wild Jot Press

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• But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

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  Mind, Littles, Situation

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger Abbey”, p.200

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