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

  Jane Austen

  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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• I have no talent for certainty.

  Jane Austen

  Talent, Certainty

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

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

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Reality, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Persuasion, Ifs

  Jane Austen (2016). “Persuasion”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Knowing, Attention, Too Much

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

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

  Jane Austen

  Believe, I Believe, Ifs

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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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• 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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• Everything nourishes what is strong already

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Sonnet

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 9 (1813)

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Alarms, Looks

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

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

  Jane Austen

  Mind, Littles, Situation

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

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

  Jane Austen

  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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