Jane Austen Quotes - Page 6

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

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  Funny, Reality, Men

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

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  Summer, Rainy Day, August

  "Jane Austen's correspondence and letters".

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• You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

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  Mother, Generosity, Giving

  Jane Austen (2016). “The Letters of Jane Austen”, p.81, Jane Austen

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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.

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  Book, Long, Done

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• I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

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  Marriage, Struggle, Long

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.389, BookCaps Study Guides

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

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  Attachment, Circles, Interest

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

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• We do not suffer by accident.

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  Suffering, Accidents

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

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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

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

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  Math, Approval, Logic

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

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• The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

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  Heart, Crime, Worst

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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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• Everything nourishes what is strong already

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  Strong, Sonnet

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 9 (1813)

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• How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

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  Men, Forever, Would Be

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.346, BookCaps Study Guides

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

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  Philosophy, Past, Thinking

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

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

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  Heart, Self, May

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

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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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• But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

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  Girl, Clever, Heart

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.69, Wild Jot Press

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• Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

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  Giving, Alarms, Looks

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.169, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.

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  Would Be

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.155

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• An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

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  Eggs

  'Emma' (1816) ch. 3 (Mr Woodhouse)

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• Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Girl

  Jane Austen, J. B. Austen Leigh (1898). “Mansfield Park”

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• her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

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  Numbers, Giving, Silence

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.227, BookCaps Study Guides

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• My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

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  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

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• Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

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  Noise, Matter, Taste

  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.1761, Lulu Press, Inc

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