Jane Austen quotes - page 7

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged. (Jane Austen)
My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them??by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents. View quote
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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it. View quote
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I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know. View quote
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Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present. View quote
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Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world. View quote
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Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her. View quote
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I do not cough for my own amusement. View quote
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly. View quote
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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in every page the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all. View quote
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She attracted him more than he liked. (Jane Austen)
She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors. View quote
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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage! View quote
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights. View quote
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You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you. View quote
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And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady. View quote
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It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him. View quote
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There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley. View quote
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If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow. View quote
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The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke. View quote
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I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive. (Jane Austen)
A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number. View quote
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she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly. View quote
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Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never. View quote
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Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? View quote
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