Jane Austen Quotes, Sister Quotes, Stupid Quotes

In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

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A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

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I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

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And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

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Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet

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... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, 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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You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

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I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

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to hope was to expect

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

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Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

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It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind

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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

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An annuity is a very serious business.

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How can you contrive to write so even?

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