55 result(s) for Jane Austen Quotes.
"Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief."
"Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like."
"There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent man."
"I am not a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things."
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope."
"It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble."
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"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."
"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously."
"Angry people are not always wise."
"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."
"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
"One cannot have too large a party."
"My sore throats are always worse than anyone's."
"'The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.'"
"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy."
"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."
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"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."
"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope... I have loved none but you."
"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."
"But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."
"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control."
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."
"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."
"I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."
"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."
"There is no greater consolation to a sister than to be able to console her like a mother."
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"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings."
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
"My good opinion once lost is lost forever."
"I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy."
"We are all fools in love."
"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
"A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill."
"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures."
"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"I am not too proud to ask you to save me from being too proud."
"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."
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