Jane Austen quotes - page 20

I dearly love a laugh... I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. (Jane Austen)
Badly done, Emma! View quote
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I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. View quote
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A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. View quote
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You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you. View quote
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I was so anxious to do what is right that I forgot to do whatright. View quote
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I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]. View quote
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There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. View quote
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Teach us...... that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes. View quote
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The one claim I shall make for my own sex is that we love longest, when all hope is gone. View quote
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You have bewitched me body and soul. (Jane Austen)
Money is the best recipe for happiness. View quote
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My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die. View quote
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She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me. View quote
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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other. View quote
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I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder. View quote
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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. View quote
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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness. View quote
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Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. View quote
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My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever. View quote
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Hope no one adds zombies to this. (Jane Austen)
Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine. View quote
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I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments are always excessively strong. View quote
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proper attention and management, less irritable, less. View quote
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Charlotte Brontë, with all her splendid gift for prose, stumbled and fell with that clumsy weapon in her hands. George Eliot committed atrocities with it that beggar description. Jane Austen looked at it and laughed at it and devised a perfectly natural, shapely sentence proper for her own use and never departed from it. Thus, with less genius for writing than Charlotte Brontë, she got infinitely more said. View quote
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