Jane Austen Quotes - Page 9

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• Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Sight, Hands

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.918, GENERAL PRESS

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• Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

  Jane Austen

  Bears, Affinity, Cunning

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.36, Lulu.com

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• An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

  Jane Austen

  Eggs

  'Emma' (1816) ch. 3 (Mr Woodhouse)

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• The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart

  Jane Austen

  Heart, World, May

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• I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Shy, Inferiority

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.26, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

  Jane Austen

  Evening, Wonder

  Jane Austen (2015). “Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)”, p.221, Book Boutiques

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• Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

  Jane Austen

  Laughing, Prejudice, Literature

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.75

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• Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

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  Dance, Believe, Thinking

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

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• Every savage can dance.

  Jane Austen

  Dancing, Savages

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.241, W. W. Norton & Company

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• None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

  Jane Austen

  Teach

  Jane Austen (1923). “The Novels of Jane Austen: The Text Based on Collation of the Early Editions”

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• I will only add, God bless you.

  Jane Austen

  Add, God Bless You, Darcy

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.101, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

  Jane Austen

  Enjoy, Enjoyed, Anne Elliot

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 11

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• It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Beauty, Years

  Jane Austen (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)”, p.1379, Jane Austen

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• Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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  Dresses, Literature, Solicitude

  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.1560, Wildside Press LLC

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• She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Feelings, Miserable

  Jane Austen (1857). “Mansfield park”, p.185

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• How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

  Jane Austen

  Book, Tire

  Jane Austen (2004). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.84, OUP Oxford

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• To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Lasts, Said

  Jane Austen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jane Austen (Illustrated)”, p.2302, Delphi Classics

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• The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Men, Literature

  Jane Austen (1992). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

  Jane Austen

  Miserable

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.143, Ageless Reads

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• I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

  Jane Austen

  Creatures, Fortunate

  "Pride and Prejudice".

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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. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

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  Daughter, Men, Views

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

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  Clever, Women, Joy

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

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  Girl, Hate, Passion

  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.475, Wildside Press LLC

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• How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

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  Love, Decided

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.593, MobileReference

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• I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

  Jane Austen

  Prejudice, Opinion, Manners

  Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (2010). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.400, Harvard University Press

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