Jane Austen Quotes, Believe Quotes, Mrs Bennet Quotes

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

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I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I 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 wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

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Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

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The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

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I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

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But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

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When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

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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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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

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Sense will always have attractions for me.

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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

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It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

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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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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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How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

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One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

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