Jane Austen Quotes, England Quotes, Gothic Quotes

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

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Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

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Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

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How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

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I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

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I should not mind anything at all.

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Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

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She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.

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If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

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There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

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It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

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

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Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

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We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

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Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

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A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

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