Jane Austen quotes - page 15

We can all begin freely-a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. (Jane Austen)
What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter. View quote
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I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. View quote
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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet. View quote
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Sense will always have attractions for me. View quote
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her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. View quote
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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high repect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. View quote
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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it. View quote
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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. View quote
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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else. View quote
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You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. (Jane Austen)
I would much rather have been merry than wise. View quote
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...told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered... View quote
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Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required. View quote
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Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business. View quote
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I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it. View quote
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Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. View quote
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What could I do! Facts are such horrid things! View quote
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Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend. View quote
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Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with. View quote
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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself. (Jane Austen)
I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman. View quote
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There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit. View quote
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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced. View quote
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My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other? View quote
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