Jane Austen Quotes - Page 9

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• You have delighted us long enough.

  Jane Austen

  Sarcastic, Witty, Sarcasm

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 18 (1813)

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• To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Falling In Love, Dancing

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.99, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

  Jane Austen

  Ideas, Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen (1867). “Mansfield Park: A Novel”, p.186, Bronson Tweed Publishing

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• one day in the country is exactly like another.

  Jane Austen

  Country, One Day

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.48, Wild Jot Press

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• One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Literature, May

  Persuasion ch. 13 (1818)

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• I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Healthy, May

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.30, PDFreeBooks.org

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• He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Gentleman, Equal

  "Complete Works of Jane Austen".

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• There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

  Jane Austen

  Wine, Climate, Want

  Jane Austen (1848). “Northanger Abbey: A Novel”, p.47

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• The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

  Jane Austen

  Men, World, Rejects

  "Fictional character: Emma". "Emma", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Fashion, Men

  Jane Austen (2014). “Northanger Abbey: An Annotated Edition”, p.144, Harvard University Press

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• It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

  Jane Austen

  Wise, Suffering, Would Be

  Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.30, Penguin

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• I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Believe, Mean

  1818 Persuasion, ch.23.

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• But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

  Jane Austen

  Fall, Men, Play

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 34 (Henry Crawford)

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• Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

  Jane Austen

  Friendship, Inspiring, Money

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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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• In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

  Jane Austen

  Sister, Stupid, Party

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• A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Sports, Boys

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.824, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Jane Austen

  Treatment, Deserve The Best, Deserve

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

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• Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Pride, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.179, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

  Jane Austen

  Home, Feelings, Quiet

  1818 Of the difference between women and men. Persuasion, ch.23.

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• We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Home, Fate

  1818 Of the difference between women and men. Persuasion, ch.23.

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• If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

  Jane Austen

  Literature, Next, Months

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.275

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• I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Hate, Passion

  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.475, Wildside Press LLC

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• I am all astonishment.

  Jane Austen

  Astonishment

  Jane Austen (2005). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.33, Prestwick House Inc

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• Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Believe, Dancing

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.929, Wordsworth Editions

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