Jane Austen Quotes, Daughter Quotes, Two Quotes

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

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…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

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

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Let us have the luxury of silence.

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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

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And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

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I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

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We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

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People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

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My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

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Till this moment I never knew myself.

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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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How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

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Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

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

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