Jane Austen Quotes - Page 5

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• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Inspiring, Happy

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 22

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• What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

  Jane Austen

  Summer, Rainy Day, August

  "Jane Austen's correspondence and letters".

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• It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

  Jane Austen

  Wise, Suffering, Would Be

  Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.30, Penguin

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• I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

  Jane Austen

  Treatment, Deserve The Best, Deserve

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.289, Wild Jot Press

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• Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

  Jane Austen

  Noise, Matter, Taste

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.1761, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There are secrets in all families.

  Jane Austen

  Secret

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.154, MobileReference

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• Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Vanity, Weak

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Emma. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.21, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Way, Wells

  Jane Austen (2000). “Sense and Sensibility: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.97, Modern Library

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• Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

  Jane Austen

  Moments, Pleasure

  "The Complete Works of Jane Austen".

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• I trust that absolutes have gradations.

  Jane Austen

  Extremes, Absolutes

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• You have delighted us long enough.

  Jane Austen

  Sarcastic, Witty, Sarcasm

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 18 (1813)

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• But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

  Jane Austen

  Fall, Men, Play

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 34 (Henry Crawford)

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• Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

  Jane Austen

  Friendship, Inspiring, Money

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• I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

  Jane Austen

  Writing

  "Jane Austen's Letters".

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• I should infinitely prefer a book.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Should

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.197

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• What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

  Jane Austen

  Laughing, Shame

  "Fictional character: Elizabeth Bennet". "Pride and Prejudice", 2005.

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• Beware how you give your heart.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Heart, Giving

  Jane Austen (2005). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1190, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Reality, Men

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• One word from you shall silence me forever.

  Jane Austen

  Silence, Forever, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.260, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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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.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Influence, Constant

  Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.”, p.56, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

  Jane Austen

  Description, Elsewhere

  Jane Austen (2005). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.766, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

  Jane Austen

  Time, Loneliness, Opportunity

  Sense and Sensibility vol. 2, ch. 12 (1811)

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• Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Mind, Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen (1857). “Mansfield park”, p.287

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• Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

  Jane Austen

  Giving, Alarms, Looks

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.169, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

  Jane Austen

  Mind, Wonderful, Operations

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.184

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