Jane Austen Quotes, Expectations Quotes

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

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there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

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What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.

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She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

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It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

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Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

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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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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

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Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

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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; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

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