Jane Austen Quotes - Page 8

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• I would much rather have been merry than wise.

  Jane Austen

  Wise, Has Beens, Merry

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.230

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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.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Love You, Men

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

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

  Jane Austen

  Numbers, Giving, Silence

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

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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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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

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• A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Influence, Constant

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.56, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Without music, life would be a blank to me.

  Jane Austen

  Music, Would Be, Blank

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.236

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• My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Forever, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.50

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• I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Long Ago

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.467, Wordsworth Editions

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• Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

  Jane Austen

  Sorry, Book, Thinking

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.82

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• No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

  Jane Austen

  Dream, Falling In Love, Love Is

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.440, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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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.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Generosity, Giving

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

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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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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

  Jane Austen

  Library, Common, Trash

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Ironic, Suffering

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.97, Full Moon Publications

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• Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

  Jane Austen

  Literature, Opinion, Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.543, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, I Love Him, Romantic Love

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen on Love and Romance”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.22.

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• Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

  Jane Austen

  Laughing, Nonsense, Whim

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.49

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• Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

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  Honesty, Heart, Female

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.302, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Clever, Heart

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

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• Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

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  Power, Men, Doe

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.94

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• Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

  Jane Austen

  Past, Abundance, Settling

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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