Jane Austen Quotes - Page 6

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• In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Funny Relationship

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.123

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• The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Country, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2010). “Mansfield Park: With an Introduction, Contemporary Opinions, and Contemporary Criticism”, p.212, Ignatius Press

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• You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Men, Years

  Jane Austen (2015). “Persuasion: World Classics”, p.218, World Classic

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• Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.441, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Crime, Worst

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• Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

  Jane Austen

  Mr Knightley

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.56

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• But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

  Jane Austen

  Friendship, Happiness, Being Happy

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.28, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Easy, Knows

  Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.242, Penguin

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• I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Self, May

  Jane Austen, Angie Zambrano (2014). “Emma: (Starbooks Classics Editions)”, Createspace Independent Pub

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• You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Pregnancy

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen on Love and Romance”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Mind, Doe

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.198

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• And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

  Jane Austen

  Sick, Perfection, Wicked

  Letter to Fanny Knight, 23 March 1817, in R. W. Chapman (ed.) 'Jane Austen's Letters' (1952)

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• Each found her greatest safety in silence.

  Jane Austen

  Safety, Silence, Found

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Complete Collection Deluxe Unabridged (annotated): [All 18 Works - Novels -Short Stories–Letters –Unfinished Works - Scraps]]”, p.1321, BookBaby

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• She attracted him more than he liked.

  Jane Austen

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.51

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• The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, I Love Him, Romantic Love

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen on Love and Romance”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I would much rather have been merry than wise.

  Jane Austen

  Wise, Has Beens, Merry

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.230

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• She is loveliness itself.

  Jane Austen

  Women, Loveliness

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.26, Wild Jot Press

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• Obstinate, headstrong girl!

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Prejudice, Headstrong

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.187, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

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  Attachment, Circles, Interest

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.952, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

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  Action, Wanted, Sensibility

  Jane Austen (1811). “Sense and Sensibility:: A Novel. In Three Volumes”, p.187

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• I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Long, Done

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• Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

  Jane Austen

  Mrs Bennet, Ironic, Suffering

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.97, Full Moon Publications

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• There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

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  Disappointment, Attitude, Expectations

  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.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Falling In Love, Dancing

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.99, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

  Jane Austen

  Knowing, Attention, Too Much

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.190, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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