Jane Austen Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Humility Quotes

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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for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

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Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

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Success supposes endeavour.

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I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

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All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.

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To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. 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.

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I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.

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We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

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It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

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My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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I should not mind anything at all.

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

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