Jane Austen quotes - page 4

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. (Jane Austen)
Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again. View quote
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Nobody minds having what is too good for them. View quote
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. View quote
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What dreadful hot weather we have It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. View quote
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If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them. View quote
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I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like. View quote
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It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. View quote
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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. View quote
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I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too. View quote
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Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him. (Jane Austen)
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion. View quote
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I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad. View quote
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She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas. View quote
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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever. View quote
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. View quote
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive. View quote
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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant. View quote
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She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. View quote
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. View quote
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. (Jane Austen)
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. 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! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. View quote
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. View quote
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I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. View quote
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