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Jane Austen Quotes

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The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away  (Jane Austen Quotes) There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to  (Jane Austen Quotes) When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other’s ultimate comfort  (Jane Austen Quotes) There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them  (Jane Austen Quotes) A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals  (Jane Austen Quotes) I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man  (Jane Austen Quotes) A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others  (Jane Austen Quotes) At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them  (Jane Austen Quotes) Undoubtedly... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable  (Jane Austen Quotes) A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer  (Jane Austen Quotes) A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can  (Jane Austen Quotes) An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done  (Jane Austen Quotes) For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?  (Jane Austen Quotes) In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels  (Jane Austen Quotes) It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife  (Jane Austen Quotes) 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?  (Jane Austen Quotes) It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation  (Jane Austen Quotes) Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then  (Jane Austen Quotes) No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment  (Jane Austen Quotes) Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast  (Jane Austen Quotes) Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch  (Jane Austen Quotes) One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty  (Jane Austen Quotes) One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering  (Jane Austen Quotes) 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  (Jane Austen Quotes) 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  (Jane Austen Quotes) To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment  (Jane Austen Quotes) Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. 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  (Jane Austen Quotes) We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be  (Jane Austen Quotes) 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  (Jane Austen Quotes) You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve  (Jane Austen Quotes)
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