Jane Austen quotes - page 3

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me. (Jane Austen)
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. View quote
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody. View quote
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. View quote
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. View quote
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. View quote
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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? View quote
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. View quote
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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. View quote
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. View quote
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. (Jane Austen)
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. View quote
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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. View quote
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Those who do not complain are never pitied. View quote
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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. View quote
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The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. View quote
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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. View quote
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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. View quote
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Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong. View quote
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It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble. View quote
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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. (Jane Austen)
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. View quote
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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. View quote
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. View quote
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. View quote
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