Jane Austen Quotes - Page 7

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Jane Austen (2016). “Juvenilia -”, p.19, Jane Austen

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• If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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  Literature, Next, Months

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.275

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• Arguments are too much like disputes.

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  Too Much, Argument, Disputes

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.36, BookBaby

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• I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

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  Ideas

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.148, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

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  Past, Abundance, Settling

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

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  Honesty, Heart, Female

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.302, Wordsworth Editions

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• Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

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  Laughing, Nonsense, Whim

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.49

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• Without music, life would be a blank to me.

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  Music, Would Be, Blank

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.236

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• She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

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  Wise, Being Wise, Reasonable

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.372

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• A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

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  World, Furniture

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1422, Ageless Reads

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• Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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  Mrs Bennet, Ironic, Prejudice

  Jane Austen, Pamela Jane, Deborah Guyol (2015). “Pride and Prejudice and Kitties: A Cat-Lover's Romp through Jane Austen's Classic”, p.73, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

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  Laughing, World, Darcy

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.549, Ageless Reads

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• An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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  Inspiring, Artist

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.21, Oxford University Press

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• I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

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  Sex, Believe, Mean

  1818 Persuasion, ch.23.

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• One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

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  Men, Literature, May

  Persuasion ch. 13 (1818)

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• It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

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  Fate, Men, Every Man

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.231

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• Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

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  Dance, Believe, Dancing

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.929, Wordsworth Editions

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• Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

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  Inspiring, Pleasant Surprises, Foolish

  'Emma' (1816) ch. 26 (Mr John Knightley)

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• One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

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  Party, Amusement

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.303

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• General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

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  Inspiring, Men, Lost Friendship

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.1099, Ageless Reads

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• I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

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  Literature, Suspects

  Jane Austen (2013). “Emma (the Very Illustrated Edition)”, p.430, eBookIt.com

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• To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

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  Heart, Imagination, Ridiculous

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.262, Ageless Reads

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• Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

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  Father, Praying, Almighty

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• Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

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  Heart, Pride, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.179, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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