Jane Austen Quotes, Serious Business Quotes

An annuity is a very serious business.

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

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But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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

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Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.

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I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

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I would much rather have been merry than wise.

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I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

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It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

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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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Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

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I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

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I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

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Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

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She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

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