Jane Austen quotes - page 13

Obstinate, headstrong girl! (Jane Austen)
If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. View quote
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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again. View quote
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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb. View quote
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to hope was to expect. View quote
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I walk: I prefer walking. View quote
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I will only add, God bless you. View quote
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How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! View quote
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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow. View quote
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Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half. View quote
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You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them. (Jane Austen)
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest. View quote
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Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections. View quote
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Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance. View quote
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She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be. View quote
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Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil. View quote
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It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. View quote
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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. View quote
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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading. View quote
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But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope. View quote
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I have no talent for certainty. (Jane Austen)
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. View quote
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I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends. View quote
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To love is to burn, to be on fire. View quote
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It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first. View quote
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