Jane Austen quotes - page 10

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy. (Jane Austen)
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. View quote
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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner. View quote
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It's such a happiness when good people get together. View quote
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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked. View quote
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I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy. View quote
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Fanny! You are killing me!" "No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford. View quote
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No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine. View quote
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if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart. View quote
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I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them. View quote
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His having been in love with the aunt gives Cecilia an additional interest with him. I like the idea - a very proper compliment to an aunt! I rather imagine indeed that nieces are seldom chosen but out of compliment to some aunt or another. I daresay Ben [Anna's husband] was in love with me once, and would never have thought of you if he had not supposed me dead of scarlet fever. (Jane Austen)
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must. View quote
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I wish I could finish stories as fast as you can. I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, and think you have done for her very well; but the good-for-nothing father, who was the real author of all her faults and sufferings, should not escape unpunished. I hope he hung himself, or took the surname of Bone or underwent some direful penance or other. View quote
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Devereux Forester's being ruined by his vanity is extremely good, but I wish you would not let him plunge into a "vortex of dissipation." I do not object to the thing, but I cannot bear the expression; it is such thorough novel slang, and so old that I daresay Adam met with it in the first novel he opened. View quote
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She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing... View quote
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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. View quote
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. View quote
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight. View quote
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Success supposes endeavour. View quote
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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. View quote
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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes. (Jane Austen)
Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity. View quote
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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. View quote
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When I fall in love, it will be forever. View quote
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Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together. View quote
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