Jane Austen quotes - page 19

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another! (Jane Austen)
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left. View quote
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character. View quote
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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. View quote
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Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. View quote
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Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well. View quote
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I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship. View quote
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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. View quote
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The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away. View quote
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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. View quote
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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. (Jane Austen)
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. View quote
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One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. View quote
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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else. View quote
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To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all. View quote
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. View quote
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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. View quote
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A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter. View quote
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A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of. View quote
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! View quote
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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)
I am excessively diverted. View quote
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Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. View quote
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One word from you shall silence me forever. View quote
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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions. View quote
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